Belgin Stephen - New Money for a New World

We can end the threats to our environment and aid dramatically in its restoration. We can help provide meaningful work for all, with opportunities that enhance and replenish the world about us. We can effectively address fundamental urban and rural concerns and the many diverse and often-divergent needs of developing and developed nations alike. We can create a better world where life and all living systems flourish. This is not an idealistic dream, but is rather a pragmatic attainment, achievable within our very own lifetimes.

So write Bernard Lietaer and Stephen Belgin, authors of the much-anticipated book New Money for a New World . Mr. Lietaer is a principal architect of the euro and author of the acclaimed international best-seller The Future of Money , which has been translated into sixteen languages. Mr. Belgin is the founder and President of Qiterra Press, a publishing company dedicated to life-affirming works that improve the human condition.

New Money for a New World examines a previously unexamined culprit for the many issues we face today the monopoly of our centuries-old monetary system. This book provides many ways and means that are readily available to stop the current juggernaut towards global self-destruction. Many of the solutions offered within this book are more than theory. Communities from around the world have successfully addressed a myriad of issues without the need to raise taxes, redistribute wealth, or depend upon enlightened self-interest from corporate entities. Rather, the improvements were realized simply and effectively by rethinking money.

With such a shift, everything is possible.

Rarely has a cultural look at money ever been presented with the depth and panache of this book. New Money for a New World is of critical usefulness and could well start a movement towards a new use of currencies and wealth that will bring constructive impetus to the emerging planetary civilization. Thus, it is more than a book; it is a key process in whole system transition.

~Dr. Jean Houston, Author, UN consultant, and Host of A Passion for the Possible A PBS series

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READER COMMENTS

The comments below for New Money for a New World also include endorsements for previous works in which many of the same arguments were presented in a more academic fashion. Other comments will be posted online on our companion website:

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New Money For A New World is one of those rarest of rare books that can truly help change the course of humanityin just the way so many of us sense but dont know how to get there. With disarming simplicity and amazing clarity, authors Bernard Lietaer and Stephen Belgin reveal the secret liberating variable to empower rapid and profound societal and consciousness transformation and environmental healingmonetary redesign. Read this book to see how you can participate in accelerating our arrival at a regenerative and fulfilling new world.

~Richard Ruster, Ph.D.,

Founder, Center for the Human Dream,

Co-Creator, the Hummingbird Community,

Author of The Homing Process: A Unifying Theory of Evolving Systems.

This is an important breakthrough in the emerging new economics of sustainability and human wellbeing.

~ Ed Mayo

President, the New Economics Foundation

These are the smartest people thinking - and rethinking - about money today. If you are among the sad majority who still think money is that green paper in your pocket, think again. The kinds of money available to us are varied as goals we have for our economy. In a world where there is more than enough stuff to go around, we deserve a money capable of reflecting rather than undermining the abundance we have achieved. This book proves the point and points the way.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Author of Life Inc., and Program or Be Programmed

The 20th century was the age of competition and the 21st century will be the age of cooperation. The concept of complementary currency this book elaborates on will be the keyword for global citizens who want to live fully in the age ahead of us.

~ Charmine Koda

Japanese Environmental Journalist

Others have shared Bernard Lietaers concern about a sustainable economy, but have not been able to provide a realistic solution. In New Money for a New World , he and co-author Stephen Belgin show us such a solution in a bold and fresh manner, and it is in this sense that this is an epoch-making book.

~T oshiharu Kato

Director Services Department, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), Japan

Exciting, challenging and profound; a unique and essential contribution to our understanding of money.

~ Dr. Peter Russell

Author of The Global Brain and Waking Up in Time

This book gives the recipe on how we in the future can create a social economy which is more responsible, more friendly towards the environment, and less filled with conflict.

~ Professor Jesper Jespersen

Churchill College, Cambridge University (UK) and University of Roskilde (Denmark)

Something extraordinary and largely unreported is happening to money. This book looks set to be the herald of the future money revolution.

~ David Boyle

New Economics Foundation, London

This book really opened my eyes as to what money is about, and what its future is - and is not.

~ Stephen Denning

Program Director, Knowledge Management, World Bank

This is a wise and incisive analysis of the nature of money in our society; the remarkable and pragmatic solutions it offers demand of us that we think about money in entirely new ways.

~ Professor Jacob Needleman

Philosopher; author of Money and the Meaning of Life

The mind of Bernard Lietaer is a rare mix of practical experience in modern finance, deep understanding of history, and lively imagination about the future. Only such a mind could have produced so fresh and so lucid an analysis of how money has become an obstacle to abundance and how conscious choices about new kinds of complementary money can help us fuse underused resources with underemployed people.

~ Harlan Cleveland

President of the World Academy of Art and Science

National currency is cold and selfish by itself. So let's create community currencies with which we can warm up our communities as New Money for a New World recommends.

~ Tsutomu Hotta

Former Minister of Justice and Supreme Court Judge in Japan.

Chairman, Sawayaka Welfare Foundation,

Founder of the Japanese Fureai Kippu currencies

The medium is the message. As Bernard Lietaer and Stephen Belgin point out, the money system is not neutral. One way or another, our behavior is heavily influenced by it. Can we change the way it works? This question concerns us all. The answer will help to decide the future of humanity and life on earth. The authors authoritative practical experience of money and finance, underpinned by their awareness of the worldwide shift of consciousness now taking place, results in many thought-provoking insights...It is not necessary to agree with every detailed proposal in this informative and stimulating book, in order to welcome it as an outstanding contribution to a vital question - the future of money in the Information Age. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

~ James Robertson

Author of The New Economics of Sustainable Development (1999)

and co-author of Creating New Money (2000)

New Money For A New World makes a simple and profound proposition: Unless we can balance the current social and monetary structures, whose remedies are well described here, our shared desire for a just, sustainable, and peaceful planet is simply not possible. ALL the good works that many of us are involved in, admirable, even successful as they may be, are mere band aids, fingers in the dike. I challenge any serious reader of this book to arrive at a different conclusion. Thats the bad news. The good news is WE CAN MAKE IT! New Money For A New World offers unique effective tools by which to resolve our core issues and co-create a better, vibrant future.