Below are references used in the creation of this site as well as some additional recommended references. Updates will be forthcoming. In the meantime several exhaustive lists of references related to money, banking, and monetary reform can be found on the Alliance For Just Money site here.

Current Monetary Scene & Alternate Monetary Policies

Scholarly References

• The Chicago Plan Revisited
  August 2012 IMF Working Paper by International Monetary Fund economists Dr. Michael Kumhof and Jaromir Benes
• Seigniorage Reform and Plain Money, Plain Money
  Scholarly papers by Joseph Huber, chair of economic and environmental sociology at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
• Workings of A Public Money System of Open Macroeconomies
  Scholarly paper by Professor Kaoru Yamaguchi, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
• Debt Free and Interest Free Money
  Interview with Dr. Richard Werner, German economist and professor at the University of Southampton (no relation to this web site’s author, Mari Werner)

Books

• The Grip of Death, a study of modern money, debt slavery and destructive economics by Michael Rowbotham. A ground-breaking work published in 1998 that got many people started on monetary reform. Also available from Amazon
• Where Does Money Come From? by Josh Ryan-Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Werner, Andrew Jackson
• The Next Money Crash and a Reconstruction Blueprint by Uli Kortsch. A compilation of essays and reports from various authors as well as Mr. Kortsch’s treatment of the subject.
• The End of Banking by Jonathan McMillan. The authors’ perspective is the banking and finance world, which can sometimes be both opaque and overly tolerant, but it is clearly calling out the dysfunction of the current system and the need to end bank creation of money.
• Modern Money Mechanics Booklet published by the Chicago Federal Reserve bank 1968-1994, republished as a free download by Wikisource at the link above. It describes the It’s a Wonderful Life model of money creation, so doesn’t go quite far enough, but it is an acknowledgment by the Federal Reserve that private banks are creating money. Also available through Internet Archive.
• The End of Money and the Future of Civilization by Thomas Greco

Websites and Blogs

• Alliance for Just Money
• International Movement for Monetary Reform
• How We Pay
• Positive Money  See their Resources page for a wealth of clear understandable videos, as well as reports, books, and other resources
• American Monetary Institute 
• Peak Prosperity, Crash Course 
• Greens for Monetary Reform
• OnsGeld Guidebook, Netherlands Monetary Reform Movement
• Real Money Economics
• Currency Solutions for a Wiser World
• Money as Debt 

Statistics and Definitions

• U.S. Federal Reserve Statistical Release, Credit Market Debt Outstanding
• U.S. Federal Reserve Statistical Release, Money Stock Measures
• Investopedia Financial Dictionary

Whole-System Rethinking and Transition

Web Sites and Blogs

• Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
• The Gift Economy
• Context Institute, Gift Economy
• Tikkun, The Gift Economy: A Model for Collaborative Community
• New Economy Coalition
• Transition Network
• Transition U.S.
• Transition Los Angeles on the economy  
• TimeBanks.Org
• Permaculture.Org
• Living Economies Forum, David Korten
• Beyond Money–Credit Clearing Pure and Simple

Books

• Doughnut Economics, Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist by Kate Rayworth
• Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
  by British economist, E.F. Schumacher, published in 1973
• The Economics of Happiness by Mark Anielski
• Agenda for a New Economy by David Korten
• Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein

Last modified: April 24, 2021