AMERICAN MONETARY INSTITUTE
A foundation dedicated to the study of monetary history, theory and reform. Stephen Zarlenga director.
CONCEPTS AND LINKS TO INTERESTING MONETARY
AND ECONOMIC SITESAMI presents these links which help to focus on problems of monetary and economic justice; and honestly discuss possible solutions without repeating the stale bromides that have helped strand us at the present monetary impasse (see our Budget Stampede essay). Through such open discussions and later, rough and tumble debates, the wheat will be separated from any chaff, and the road(s) to monetary and economic reform will become ever more clear.
MONETARY HISTORY & THEORY
Bishop George Berkeley's 1735 QUERIST
Berkeley's book demonstrates that far better monetary awareness than Adam Smith exhibited, was to be found in the British Isles at least a generation before Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations.
Benjamin Franklin's 1729 MODEST INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND NECESSITY OF A PAPER CURRENCY
An expert eyewitness account of the American colonist's positive experience with paper money.
Frederich List's NATIONAL SYSTEM OF POLITICAL ECONOMY(German edition 1840's, English 1885)
One of several key works which more than adequately indicted Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations as largely politically motivated and promoted; and very misleading. Among other things List observed that the concept of a role for the nation is glaringly absent from Smith's book, despite its title. However, List did not see through Smith's metallist monetary errors.
Roy Davies monetary links
An excellent wide ranging source on monetary thought.
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
The Earth Rights Institute website of United Nations NGO Representative Alanna Hartzok, contains much valuable information and current initiatives for achieving economic justice.
The William Vickrey Nobel Memorial Home Page
Includes moving testimonials to Vickrey; a full reproduction of his 1993 paper "WE NEED A BIGGER DEFICIT"; Vickrey's list of ruling economic fallacies; and thoughtful analyses of his lifelong drive for economic justice.
The Center for Study of Responsive Law a Ralph Nader group
Some excellent essays on ending corporate welfare, and balanced budget hypocrisy.
The Georgist Education Association Inc A good site focusing on the ideas of the Henry George school for the single land tax.
GROUPS DISCUSSING MONETARY STUDY AND REFORM
The Sovereignty Program Ken Bohnsack's movement to reduce construction interest costs for all public bodies; from School Boards and Villages, to Counties and States.
Leslie Brock Center For the Study Of Colonial Currency
In the 1970s Brock cleared up many misconceptions about colonial money which had been miscast as mere inflationary paper. This was 70 years after Alexander Del Mar had also showed how crucial these paper currencies were to building our nation. Both have been ignored by the "economists."
Economics Online, by Kristin Kucsma
Institute for Economic Democracy
J.W. Smith's Site featuring Georgist ideas and Economic Justice
Arno Mong Daastoel's Norwegian Economics Page
Watch this site for interesting developments from a very smart (and moral!) Norwegian economist.
My Book in German: Der Mythos vom Geld - die Geschichte der Macht!
PROSPERITY - A Scottish Monetary Reform Group
Transaction Net - A monetary and economic site
Truth In Money Ted and Margaret Thoren's excellent web site
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EDIRC: Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
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