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	Nexus, Colorado's Holistic Health and Spirituality Journal
		Lietaer has been involved in the world of money systems for more than 25 years, and his experience in monetary matters ranges from multinational corporations to developing countries.
		Formerly professor of international finance at the University of Louvain, Lietaer is currently a fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources at the University of California, Berkeley.
		Here, Lietaer shares his views on the shortcomings of our conventional currency system, the benefits of creating a complementary currency, and ways to effect lasting social change.
	www.nexuspub.com /articles/2003/july2003/interview.htm (4357 words)

	BOOK REVIEW, Bernard Lietaer, "The Future of Money"
		Lietaer's answer is that social and environmental breakdown are directly associated with how currency systems are designed.
		For Lietaer, who was on the team that designed the European single currency, and has devoted considerable thought and research to the design of money systems, money is designed with features that affect how societies and communities function and their relationship to business, government and the environment.
		The resolution Lietaer suggests is to be found in these "new monetary experiments" that have been cropping up all over the world: Community Currencies/Alternate Currencies.
	ebean390.tripod.com /waltbernard.html (1114 words)

	CLAL on Culture Archive: Robert Rabinowitz, Going Beneath the Surface of Today’s Corporate Scandals
		Lietaer points out that, assuming that the population and its annual production remain exactly the same during that next year, one of the ten families will have to lose all its tokens, even if everybody managed their affairs well, in order to provide the 11th token to the nine other families.
		Lietaer's point is not that we should abandon debt-based currencies wholesale, although he does believe that much of the material scarcity we experience is not "out there" in nature and is created by our money system (p.
		Lietaer urges his readers to take the initiative and to create their own alternative currencies which, he claims, would not have such dysfunctional effects.
	www.clal.org /coc52.html (2290 words)

	[Free-sklyarov-uk] Bernard Lietaer on forms of Currency
		It is an interview with Bernard Lietaer, the guy who designed and implemented the Euro convergence mechanism (according to the article, at least).
		Bernard Lietaer, author of the upcoming book "Access to Human Wealth: Money beyond Greed and Scarcity" (Access Books, 2003), has made a life's work of exploring these questions.
		Lietaer is the author of nine books on money and finances, including "The Future of Money" (Random House, 2001), The Mystery of Money (Riemann Verlag, 2000) and a book for kids, called 'The World of Money' (Arena Verlag, 2001).
	www.xenoclast.org /free-sklyarov-uk/2003-August/005207.html (4761 words)

	dbweb.org - The Future of Money
		Bernard Lietaer is not a lightweight when it comes to money.
		According to Lietaer, the world's 500 largest corporations make and sell seven times more goods and services than 20 years ago, but have managed in that time to actually reduce their overall workforce.
		Lietaer also goes into detail about a new global reference currency he is proposing, called the Terra, which would not bear interest, and which would be valued against common commodities, thus making it stable: in fact, it would be inflation-proof.
	www.dbweb.org /future.html (1194 words)

	Beyond Greed and Scarcity by Bernard Lietaer - alternative monetary systems
		Bernard Lietaer was also the general manager and currency trader for one of the largest and most successful offshore currency funds.
		BERNARD : My analysis of this question is based on the work of Carl Gustav Jung because he is the only one with a theoretical framework for collective psychology, and money is fundamentally a phenomenon of collective psychology.
		BERNARD : Well, actually a very interesting religious symbol became prevalent during this time: the famous "Black Madonna." There were hundreds of these statues during the 10th to 13th centuries, which were in fact statues of Isis with the child Horus sitting on her lap, directly imported from Egypt during the first Crusades.
	www.futurenet.org /2Money/Lietaer.html (4309 words)

	Money should work for us, not the other way around - Islam America
		Ex-banker Bernard Lietaer thinks the latter is the case.
		You have no idea what money is. Bernard Lietaer is too friendly and modest a man to say it that way, but this is the easiest possible way to sum up his message.
		Lietaer's belief that the global monetary system needed reform led him to the Belgian Central Bank, where for several years he was involved in the establishment of the ECU, or European Currency Unit, the precursor of the euro.
	www.islamamerica.org /articles.cfm/article_id/96 (2000 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work and a Wiser World: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lietaer made his name implementing the convergence mechanism for the European single currency, and was named the world's top currency trader in 1989.
		Lietaer argues that "all crises contain hidden opportunities", which leads him to his central thesis that "we are now engaged in a structural shift of the world system, and this shift offers an unprecedented opportunity to give birth to Sustainable Development".
		Bernard Lietaer’s extraordinary book is a devastating and controversial analysis of the challenges facing monetary systems now.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0712683992 (2139 words)

	there it is . org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lietaer’s proposal is to introduce—alongside the existing national currencies—complementary money systems on a large scale.
		Lietaer says, “Complementary money systems put us in a position to be ourselves—to literally cash in on our talents.
		Bernard Lietaer discovered the destructive effects of the prevailing monetary system while working in Latin America during the 1970s.
	thereitis.org /printarticle957.html (2068 words)

	publish.nyc.indymedia.org \| Beyond Greed & Scarcity
		Finance expert Bernard Lietaer explains why capitalism is one gigantic race to the bottom for us all (except the bankers) and some of the things we need to do to achieve economic democracy and economic justice.
		BERNARD: My analysis of this question is based on the work of Carl Gustav Jung because he is the only one with a theoretical framework for collective psychology, and money is fundamentally a phenomenon of collective psychology.
		BERNARD: The majority of the local currencies I know about have been started for the purpose of creating employment, but there is a growing group of people who are starting local currencies specifically to create community.
	nyc.indymedia.org /en/2005/11/59723.html (4339 words)

	Telluride Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lietaer (one of the developers and negotiators behind the creation of the Euro) began his lecture by reminding the audience that this town of Telluride was built on money.
		Lietaer began his slide show with a cartoon of figures on a swinging chair carousel.
		Lietaer says that throwing a national currency at a region is like giving booze to a hobo.
	www.tellurideinstitute.com /print_43 (731 words)

	More Than Money :: Journal, Ezine, Free Trial Subscriptions
		LIETAER: One powerful way to "calm the yang" is to give some of your money away when you have more of it than you need.
		LIETAER: An extreme yang currency system has a shadow phenomenon, in the Jungian sense of shadow; it is the manifestation of something that is repressed.
		Lietaer was a professor of international finance at the University of Louvain and is currently a visiting professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
	www.morethanmoney.org /members/member_articles/mtm34_culture.htm (3649 words)

	La Leva di Archimede (ENG): Community Currencies - Montreal International Seminar
		Bernard explained that since money is simply an agreement, within a community, to use something as a medium of exchange many local communities in Japan have taken the lead to make new agreements about money.
		Bernard Lietaer's favourite form of complementary community currency is a mutual credit currency, which is commonly created by the participants themselves to facilitate a transaction.
		Bernard Lietaer said: It's time to leave Monetary Flatland and he pointed out that in 2003 the complementary community currency movement is where the Wright Brothers - the leaders of the flight and airplane movement were in 1903.
	www.laleva.org /eng/2004/02/community_currencies_montreal_international_seminar.html (4495 words)

	Ode (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lietaer is right, we haven't a clue what money is. That "money is an agreement" and "not a thing" is precisely why most people don't understand its nature.
		I would bet that if bernard Lietaer would show up in Mobile AL tomorrow, that city would be the first one to be "back on the map".
		Lietaer has, for the first time, I believe, introduced into public discourse the idea that behaviors and values are strongly influenced, if not determined, by the structure of the monetary system.
	www.odemagazine.com /article.php?aID=4147 (4887 words)

	BOOK REVIEW: Bernard Lietaer, The Future of Money
		The thing is, the citation above is from Bernard Lietaer, an ex-senior executive of the central bank of Belgium, from his book, The Future of Money.
		Lietaer's answer is that social and environmental breakdown are directly associated with how currencies are designed.
		But for Lietaer, who was on the team that designed the Euro, and has devoted considerable thought and research to the design of money systems, money is designed with features that affect how societies and communities function and their relationship to the environment.
	wsarch.ucr.edu /wsnmail/2001/msg00842.html (590 words)

	Order The Future of Money by Bernard Lietaer
		Michele and Bernard made a strong energetic connection, and before we knew it we were arranging for a presentation by Bernard the following November in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
		Based on the four mega-trends of monetary instability, global greying (an ageing global population), the information revolution, and climate changne, Bernard Lietaer looks at different scenarios of what the world might be like in 2020.
		Bernard Lietaer has spent 25 years working in different areas of the money system.
	www.lightsmith.com /shoppe/infomoney.htm (572 words)

	TURMEL: #3 Montreal Seminar on Alternative Currencies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In his presentation, Bernard suggested that we-the-people at the fringe of the pyramids of power ought not expect creative solutions to come from our respective federal governments as politicians and bureaucrats are least likely to entertain thoughts and suggestions from out-of-the-box thinkers.
		Later, Bernard seems to have forgotten how easy it is with just one large trader to his saturation: TK: At this time in his research, Bernard Lietaer does not entertain the possibility that complementary community currencies have the potential to replace national currencies.
		Bernard Lietaer: "It's time to leave Monetary Flatland" and he pointed out that in 2003 the complementary community currency movement is where the Wright Brothers - the leaders of the flight and airplane movement were in 1903.
	www.talkaboutgambling.com /group/alt.gambling/messages/46839.html (4426 words)

	Transition Culture » Bernard Lietaer’s Talk at Schumacher College - ‘The Future of Money’.
		Bernard Lietaer’s Talk at Schumacher College - ‘The Future of Money’.
		I was fortunate enough to attend a talk by economist Bernard Leitaer at Schumacher College the other evening.
		Silvio Gesell realised a hundred years ago that something was wrong and deeply unfair with interest as concept, but Bernard take the field to completely new heights.
	transitionculture.org /?p=187 (1343 words)

	Kansas Wesleyan University :: News :: international currency expert Lietaer to speak at KWU ::
		Bernard Lietaer, international currency expert, visionary, and proponent of a more sustainable economy, is coming to Salina Friday through Sunday, April 21-23.
		Lietaer will also speak about the larger implications of his theories in another presentation at Salina’s Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 10:15 Sunday morning service, at 901 Beatrice.
		Lietaer has been manager of a successful international money fund, central banker at the Bank of Belgium, and developed the convergence mechanism that led to the Euro currency.
	www.kwu.edu /publicrelations/stories/lietaer.html (349 words)

	Sustainable Resources 2003 - Presenters - Sustainable Development Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bernard Lietaer is one of the original architects of the European single currency, and an expert on monetary systems.
		During his three year tenure as General Manager and Currency Trader of Gaia Hedge II, the fund was rated by the Micropal survey as the top performer among 75 currency hedge funds and among all 1800 offshore funds worldwide.
		Eventually Bernard became more interested in the deeper issues underlying currency trading and monetary systems, and he turned to teaching.
	www.sustainableresources.org /sr2003/srKeynotes/expand/33.html (218 words)

	Tuesday Report - November 4, 2003
		Lietaer emphasized that the terra is not designed to replace national currencies such as the dollar, yen or euro.
		According to Lietaer, it should also benefit commodity-dependent emerging countries, which have seen outside investments fall by one-third since the last vestiges of a gold-based money system were abandoned.
		Lietaer believes the terra could be a functioning currency within five to ten years, versus the 23 years the euro required, as his proposal needs no new legislation or international agreements to become operational.
	www.barternews.com /archive/11_04_03.htm (1259 words)

	Taking the Mystery Out of Money - a conversation with Bernard Lietaer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is our focus-to probe the monetary mysteries, and perhaps catch a glimpse of the birth of a new money standard far beyond anything we might have previously imagined.
		Our conversation is with Bernard Lietaer, university professor, currency trader and fundmaster.
		BERNARD LIETAER: The current representative of the United States at the IM (International Monetary Fund) gave me the following answer on that: Money is magic.
	www.newdimensions.org /online-journal/articles/taking-the-mystery.html (1419 words)

	Brian Leslie's review of The Future Of Money, by Bernard Lietaer, and Money, by Thomas H Greco
		Lietaer sees four megatrends converging in the next 5-20 years: monetary instability, the 'age wave' (the increasing average age of the population), climate change and extinction of biodiversity, and the information revolution.
		I do not share Lietaer's pessimism about the possibility of achieving monetary reform - an issue Greco does not even address as he sees complementary currencies as making it unneccessary - despite the failure of its advocates to achieve it to date.
		His assessment of the invulnerability over the past century of the vested interests manipulating and controlling the current system is indisputable but the mounting instability of the present system and its impending collapse make the possibility of forcing reform much more realistic.
	www.feasta.org /documents/review2/money.htm (1400 words)

	THE FUTURE OF MONEY with Bernard A. Lietaer: New Dimensions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bernard Lietaer supplies us with this definition: “Money is not a thing; money lives in the same space as a marriage--in a space of agreement.
		Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.” Lietaer gives us tremendous insights into the origins and nature of money throughout history, as well as the impact electronic money (a product of the information revolution) is having on banking systems, corporations, communities and individuals.
		Lietaer has been an engineer, university professor, currency trader and fund manager.
	newdimensions.org /Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ND&Product_Code=2702 (255 words)

	Peak Oil News & Message Boards >> Forums >> Book/Media Reviews >> 'The Future of Money' Bernard Lietaer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I've come to see alternative - what Bernard Lietaer calls complementary currencies - a good term, as important to post-peak environment.
		Bernard has moved the scientific revolution to "money" at last, and I compare him to Copernicus, Linne, or Darwin.
		Here is the paper: The Future of Payment Systems (pdf) by Bernard Lietaer.
	www.peakoil.com /fortopic6829.html (2102 words)

	Bernard Lietaer, From the real economy to the speculative (excerpts)
		Bernard Lietaer, From the real economy to the speculative (excerpts)
		Remarks by Bernard Lietaer at International Forum on Globalization (IFG) seminar, [15 December 1997]
		About the writer: Bernard Lietaer has been a financial adviser to transnational corporations and to developing countries, and was a professor of international finance at the University of Louvain in Belgium.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/25/062.html (2163 words)

	Green Century Institute
		Bernard Lietaer is one of the world's leading authorities on complementary currencies and one of the chief architects of the Euro (the new common currency of the European Union).
		A former senior officer of the Belgian Central Bank and active in the domain of money systems for 25 years, he authored the landmark book The Future of Money while a fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources at the University of California at Berkeley.
		The Green Century Institute is a non-profit association and is a project of the Rudolph Steiner Foundation.
	www.greencenturyinstitute.org /BLietaer.htm (184 words)

	ratitor's corner: march equinox 1999, "Expanding the Song of Life"
		Early on Bernard describes his understanding of how greed and fear of scarcity, the shadows of the Great Mother archetype of abundance, "are in fact being continuously created and amplified as a direct result of the kind of money we are using.
		Bernard is completing a new book -- due out in German in 9/99 and English in spring, 2000 -- called The Future of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity in which he will no doubt expand further upon the four trends he sees converging which he explained during his presentation.
		At one point at the conference Bernard articulated his sense that where the promotion of life is concerned, the primary issue with any money system is the democratization of how capital is invested.
	www.ratical.org /ratitorsCorner/03.20.99.html (15710 words)

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