ABOUT THE BOOK
Many of the world’s economic ills are due to our competitive, debt-based money system, in which there is built-in economic scarcity. Bernard Lietaer one of the world’s most knowledgeable experts about our money system and journalist Jacqui Dunne team up to describe how individual citizens, entrepreneurs, businesses, communities, and governments are creating new cooperative money systems that match unused resources with unmet needs.
MARKET / AUDIENCE
Current affairs readers, economists and planners, currency markets professionals and finance specialists/readers, investors, bankers, and fund managers, government legislators and policy makers and academic programs focusing on global economies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bernard Lietaer has studied and worked in the field of money for more than 30 years as a Central Banker, a fund manager, a university professor, and a consultant to governments, multinational corporations, and community organizations. He co-designed and implemented the convergence mechanism to the single European currency system (the Euro). He co-founded and managed GaiaCorp, a top performing currency fund whose profits funded investments in environmental projects. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources of the University of California at Berkeley.
Jacqui Dunne is an award-winning journalist from Ireland who has produced and guest hosted hour- long radio interviews, which have been syndicated through Public Radio. Dunne is currently CEO of Entrepreneurs without Borders, a for-profit organization that supports emergent, socially conscientious, and profitable technologies.
