Latest research on monetary diversity Leander Bindewald, 10. January 2022 Special Issue “Monetary Plurality and Crisis” in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM) In addition to our commitment to the implementation of innovative currency ideas and the ongoing educational work on money and monetary reforms, it is above all the academic treatment of these two fields of activity that will ultimately pave […] read more
Event archive: 2021 International Monetary Conference from 5. November 2021 to 7. November 2021, Zoom From November 5-7, the American Monetary Institute (AMI) will host the 2021 International Monetary Conference. read more
Biography Bernard Lietaer Leander Bindewald, 24. April 2021 “The other day you said on the phone: Give me a problem and I’ll develop a complementary currency with which you can solve it. And I have to tell you this: Your imagination, your inexhaustible ideas on how to design, invent and transform money, simply amaze me every time. ” Margrit Kennedy in a letter […] read more
Event archive: RAMICS Online Roundtable on 05. March 2021 09:00 At a time of uncertainty about the future and increased precarity in the present, we at RAMICS believe that complementary and community currencies have become and even more relevant tool to build community resilience and hopefully help us transition towards a more sustainable future. read more
It’s the End of the World as We Know It, And I Feel Fine Our Expert-Blog, 22. June 2020, by Stephanie Rearick I gave this article that title on submitting it, on May 5, 2020 – 20 days before the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the subsequent steps to both revolution and violent crackdown. I can no longer say something that light, but I can say that current circumstances make it all the more […] read more
Event archive: Cancelled: The Future of Money – Private vs Sovereign Currencies on 21. March 2020, Copenhagen Today, with a new financial crisis on the horizon, the need to understand and rethink money and banking seems more important than ever. In line with an increasing number of politicians and economists, we acknowledge the urgency of understanding the deficiencies of the current money system and the need to examine monetary reforms and alternative forms of money as means to create a more stable and sustainable future. read more
Event archive: Complementary Currencies for economic and social change from 18. July 2020 to 20. July 2020, University of Amsterdam For more than two decades now, various forms of complementary currencies emerged all over the world, aiming at “taking back local economies” (North 2014). CCs are commonly understood as media of exchange (Hallsmith/Lietaer 2011) or accounting systems (Fare/Ould- Ahmed 2017) that are used within a particular group of users. Responding to broader debates on our […] read more
Event archive: Towards a sustainable financial ecosystem (event in honour of Bernard Lietaer) on 22. November 2019, Brussels In the wake of the 2008 crisis, governments worldwide have rescued the financial system at a high societal cost, yet without a systemic reform to correct its weaknesses. Today a broad reflection is emerging on how to create a more stable financial system at the service of people and planet. Many actors inside and outside […] read more
Georgina M. Gómez: Monetary Plurality in Local, Regional and Global Economies The idea that each country should have one currency is so deeply rooted in people’s minds that the possibility of multiple and concurrent currencies seems unthinkable. Monetary systems contribute to problems of high unemployment and social distress during financial and economic crisis, so reforms to increase the responsiveness and flexibility of the monetary system can […] read more
Event archive: 5th Biennial RAMICS International Congress from 11. September 2019 to 15. September 2019, Japan “Going Digital? New Possibilities of Digital-Community Currency Systems” Only in the past few years, crypto currencies such as Bitcoin and other altcoins/ tokens have rapidly spread all over the world, expanded its scale, and increased its number. However, we have witnessed in the recent bubble burst of crypto currencies that they have become quite volatile, […] read more