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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.

The conference
Speakers:
— Opening: Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
— Mar Gudmundsson, Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland
— Martin Wolf, Chief Economics commentator at The Financial Times
— Sigurvin Bardur Sigurjonsson, Manager at KPMG Iceland, presents the report
The conference will conclude with panel discussions with the speakers and Frosti Sigurjónsson, MP and head of Althingi’s committee of economics and trade and Ásgeir Jónsson, Assistant Professor and Chair of the Economic Department, University of Iceland.

Registration and further information
Attendance is free of charge and the conference will be streamed online at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXvEwEPOQa0
If you’d like to attend the conference please register through email to Johanna Kristin
(jkgudmundsdottir@kpmg.is).
For other queries, please contact Sigurvin (sbsigurjonsson@kpmg.is).
We encourage you to tweet about the conference at #MoneyIssuance.

On Monday the 5 th  of September at 8:30, the Icelandic Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and KPMG Iceland will jointly hold the conference. The conference will be held at Icelandair Hotel Reykjavik Natura, Nautholsvegur, Reykjavík.

Budapest will host the 5th International Degrowth Conference at Corvinus University (30 August – 3 September 2016). read more

This free online course by the University of Cumbria will enable you to understand the past, present and future role of money in society. The 4th cohort starts 21st August 2016 and lasts 4 weeks. This course runs in English only.

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The Summer School Alternative Economic and Monetary Systems (Vienna, July 27 – August 14, 2016, 5 ECTS, completely in English) is open to students of all fields and offers alternatives to the processes that are putting strains on our economic and eco-social boundaries. In addition to classic and new concepts from the field of economics, students will also hear presentations from natural and social sciences and discuss the actual leeway for economic and monetary reform.

Between 1970 and 2007 alone, the world saw 425 systemic economic crises, among them 145 sector-wide banking crises. In the light of current political and social events one might start to wonder whether this apparently inherent instability might ever be reduced, even if there is sufficient public intent. Yet, at the same time, the global effects of population growth, resource exploitation and environmental degradation force us to think about long-term change. This leaves the question: What is the actual leeway? If you have been asking yourself how things could be changed and how to contribute, you might be interested in this academic summer program

More information and registration on their website: http://summer-university.net/study-abroad/aems-vienna/

Reports from the last years can be found at www.summer-university.net/study-abroad/aems-vienna/aemsprogram/.

Research Conference “Monetary  Institutionalism in the French Speaking World: Past  Record, Future Prospects  and  International Perspectives”

1-­3  June  2016, Lyon –

Hosted by Triangle, LEDi,  CLERSE  und IRISSO Forschungs Zentren

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University of Bahia, Salvador (Brazil)

More infos: http://socialcurrency.sciencesconf.org/