AMI Conference 2026 Preparing for the Next Collapse from 25. September 2026 to 27. September 2026, USA, online This year’s 22nd American Monetary Institute Conference builds on last year’s conference. For example, Professor Yamaguchi, the world’s foremost systems dynamics modeler of monetary systems, continues to elaborate on his work as expressed in Public Money. He will answer questions posed in advance about his past work and his work as expressed in his book, Public […] read more
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: 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: The E-krona and Beyond: The Future of Money and Banking in the Era of Digitalization on 15. June 2019, Stockholm, Sweden Which challenges does digitalization pose to money, banking and monetary policy? Should central banks introduce digital cash to respond to these challenges? Which consequences would digital cash have for the economy? Are other or further reforms needed? read more
Event archive: 14th Annual Conference of the American Monetary Institute from 25. October 2018 to 28. October 2018, Chicago, Illinois Monetary reform conference with a comprehensive line up of speaker, including Prof. Steve Keen, Prof. Josef Huber, Prof. Richard Werner, Congressman Dennis Kucinich and many others. read more
Event archive: The future of money – 10 years after Lehman and Nakamoto on 24. November 2018, Frankfurt am Main The Conference aims at debating the current debt-based money system and two major reforms in three parallel tracks and three sessions: Current Money System, Vollgeld / Sovereign Money and Cryptocurrencies read more
Event archive: Summer School: Alternative Economic and Monetary Systems from 25. July 2018 to 10. August 2018, Vienna Is a world dominated by profit and competition a good place to be? This summer program focuses on ways to restructure economic systems to embody sustainable use of resources and a more collaborate society overall. At AEMS you learn about: The variety of alternative economic and monetary systems that are already in practice worldwide. Ecologic […] read more
Positive Money or Positive Monies? – A plea for monetary diversity Our Expert-Blog, 9. February 2017, by John Rogers We talk a lot about the ‘money system’. In what sense does money form a ‘system’? Does it have a function or purpose? Does it have interconnections? Does it have identifiable elements? 1. Elements of a money system The elements of a money system include the structures and institutions that create it – governments, […] read more
Event archive: Conference – Money Issuance – alternative monetary systems on 05. September 2016 08:30, Reykjavík, Iceland When commercial banks issue loans to customers, they create money by issuing deposits on the current account of the customer. Proposals for adoption of alternative systems, where a central bank would issue new money, such as the Sovereign Money (SM) system, have gained momentum in recent years. Commissioned by Iceland’s Prime Minister’s Office, KPMG has laid out the fundamentals of the SM system and conducted a review of public discussions, political coverage and field of academics over the last years. read more
A Partial History of Monetary Reform in the UK Our Expert-Blog, 10. April 2016, by John Rogers A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse. John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: whence it came, where it went For as long as money has existed in its two most popular forms – either as debt-based accounting systems or as notes and coins – it has […] read more