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You have no idea what money is. Read this book and find out how simply changing our money system will lead to a more sustainable and peaceful society.

Jurriaan Kamp, Editor-in-Chief, The Intelligent Optimist

Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunnes clear and potent voice tells the story of our distorted and dysfunctional money system and how we can finally free ourselves from it and find our way to the future we yearn for. This stunning book should be required reading for every person who wants a world that works and a sustainable future for all of life.

Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money

Rethinking Money does a brilliant job of eradicating the concepts and stories that our economists and other professionals in the field hold dear. The authors write that money is our last taboo, but they dont recommend abolishing the fiat zeitgeist. Rather, they wisely call on the various new currencies and other monetary innovations to complement the existing system.

Nigel Seale, former worldwide Chairman, Earth Day International, and founder of Earth Day Canada

Rethinking Money is required reading for anyone who is serious about transforming our current unsustainable economic system to one where people and planet can prosper. This is a brilliant analysis of our current monetary system and its pitfalls. More importantly, the authors strategize the way forward with solutions that not only rethink money but revalue human beings, long-term planning, and our planet.

Georgia Kelly, Executive Director, Praxis Peace Institute

In the midst of the confusion created by todays crises, there are few people who can provide viable solutions that not only serve our local communities but also address the global economy. Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne are such a brilliant force for good.

Mariana Bozesan, PhD, integral investor and author of The Making of a Consciousness Leader in Business

The mission of businessthe mission of civilizationis to further the path of development that began in nature. We must develop a human ecosystem where we use less and have more. The monetary ecosystem proposed in Rethinking Money makes it possible and provides long-awaited solutions to the crises we face such as climate change, worldwide violence, and the chasm between rich and poor. This book is a must-read.

Tachi Kiuchi, Chairman, E-Square Inc. and Future 500

The portrait of an emerging world where issues of lack, intolerance, degradation, and war are replaced by sustainable abundance and economic justice for all is balm for the soul. This shift is brought about, in large part, by simply rethinking money.

Sherry Ruth Anderson, coauthor of The Feminine Face of God

The authors have expertly revealed new distinctions in the monetary domain but without the usual economic explanations of dry theory and abstraction. This book is for anyone who wonders why the system is failing us and, perhaps more importantly, what to do about it.

Julio Olalla, founder of Newfield Network and author of From Knowledge to Wisdom

An instant classic! Lietaer and Dunne explain how and why our monetary system fails to put supply and demand together, subsidizes and promotes intolerable and unnecessary disparities of well-being, entrenches unearned privilege, undermines democracy, creates boom-and-bust cycles, and rewards unsustainable, destructive growth Without undermining or vilifying all that money presently contributes, they provide a guided tour to an array of actual alternatives like time banking and complementary currencies to create a sustainable, more equitable monetary ecosystem.

Edgar Cahn, creator of Time Dollars, founder of TimeBanks USA, and cofounder of the National Legal Services Program

Rather than just blaming somebodydumb politicians, greedy corporations, and bankstersLietaer and Dunne show us the real issue: a system and a technology that are just built on agreements. And they show how we can change them to fit our real needs, live well, and save the planet in the process.

Paul H. Ray, PhD, coauthor of The Cultural Creatives

In a time in which money has become a form of madness, this remarkable book offers profound understanding and guidance to the creation of a monetary ecosystem that can build both a better self and a better world. The rethinking of money is one of the most important things we have to do, and the authors succeed brilliantly.

Jean Houston, PhD, author of Jump Time and A Passion for the Possible

New currency systems will not solve all the problems generated by physical growth on a finite planet. But we will have zero chance of creating a more satisfactory global future if we do not create new mechanisms for facilitating commerce. Rethinking Money is an incredibly practical and inspiring guide for how we could do that.

Dennis L. Meadows, coauthor of The Limits to Growth

The new understanding this book offers is critical because economics has become the dominantand increasingly onlydiscipline with which important decisions are being made. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to be part of the timely conversation on how to move forward to create the just, sustainable, and equitable world we all desire.

Thom Hartmann, internationally syndicated talk show host and author of twenty-four books

Lietaer and Dunne describe the many thousands of innovative currencies in use by communities worldwide and how these currencies are facilitating the needed transition of human societies to more peaceful, sharing, prosperous, and sustainable futures.

Hazel Henderson, President, Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil), and author of Ethical Markets, Planetary Citizenship, and Building a Win-Win-World

RETHINKING
MONEY

HOW
NEW CURRENCIES
TURN SCARCITY INTO
PROSPERITY

Bernard Lietaer
and
Jacqui Dunne

Rethinking Money

Copyright 2013 by Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne
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