The Terra TRC: A Global Complementary Currency to Stabilize the World Economy
The Terra is a global complementary currency designed to provide an inflation-resistant international standard of value; to stabilize the business cycle on a global level; and to realign stockholder’s...
View ArticleVideo of Tedx Talk in Berlin (November 2009)
Overview: In this talk, Bernard explains that the current banking crisis is a structural crisis which requires a systemic solution. Studies have shown that a natural ecosystem’s ability to thrive and...
View ArticleCommercial Credit Circuit (C3): A Financial Innovation to Structurally...
This paper explains how mutual credit systems can help small and medium-size businesses face the current banking and economic crisis and deal with the problem of cash flow shortage. Businesses can...
View ArticleManaging the Banking Crisis
In this article, Bernard Lietaer, Robert Ulanowicz and Sally Goerner discuss the shortcomings of conventional approaches to managing banking crises (i.e. nationalization of problem assets), and they...
View ArticleMoney Should Work for Us, Not the Other Way Around: An Interview with Ode...
Interview with Bernard Lietaer Jurriaan Kamp | Ode Magazine, September 2005 issue What is money? Do we need more of it to solve some of the world’s problems? Or is money the cause of them? Ex-banker...
View ArticleBeyond Greed and Scarcity: an Interview with Yes! Magazine
In a 1997 interview with Yes Magazine, Bernard explains that the condition of scarcity which plagues many of our societies is actually a product of the kinds of money systems we adopt. He also...
View ArticleCredentials of a Flying Fish: Bernard’s Story
My main qualification for talking the way I do about money is that for the last forty years I happen to have been exposed to an unusual variety of hands-on experiences of money as a system. This was...
View ArticleMoney and Sustainability, The Missing Link by Bernard Lietaer, Christian...
Pioneering new research from the Club of Rome In 1972, the first Report for the Club of Rome – The Limits to Growth – famously spelled out the unsustainable consequences of an economic system that...
View ArticlePeople Money, The Promise of Regional Currencies by Margrit Kennedy, Bernard...
Order the book from Triarchy Press About the book People Money is a comprehensive guide to the principles and practice of regional currencies. It shows how regional currencies can transform the lives...
View ArticleRethinking Money, How new currencies turn scarcity into prosperity by Jacqui...
NEW BOOK RELEASED! Rethinking Money points out that there is a way, in fact a thousand ways, to stop our current juggernaut towards global self-destruction. There is a system of solutions already in...
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