A foundation dedicated to the
study of monetary history, theory and reform.Stephen Zarlenga director.
CONCEPTS
AND LINKS TO INTERESTING MONETARY
AND ECONOMIC SITES
AMI 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.
The
warmongers, who co-incidently happen to pretty much be the same people
benefitting from monetary and economic injustice, understand that
if they can keep us in a state of war and fear, they can keep the
crucial monetary and economic reforms we promote, off the front
burner. Click here
for info on Marianne Williamson and the Department of Peace Initiative.
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.
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.
Robert
Poteat one of America's most advanced students of monetary history
and theory and proponent of monetary reform maintains a very impressive
monetary website with extensive documentation, that you should visit!
Bob is the Chapter Leader of AMI's west coast chapters in
Portland, Seattle and Centralia.
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. (link temporarily broken)
TheCenter
for Study of Responsive Law a Ralph Nader group
Some
excellent essays on ending corporate welfare, and balanced budget
hypocrisy.
James Robertson
is among the worlds top monetary reformers and has put together with
Prof. Joseph Huber an excellent plan for United Kingdom monetary
reform, very similar to the American Monetary Act, but in a British
historical context. The link above is to his newsletter. Their book,
Creating New Money is found at: http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/uploads/CreatingNewMoney.pdf
Ken Bohnsack's
Sovereignty movement to reduce
construction interest costs for all public bodies; from School Boards
and Villages, to Counties and States.
Link broken, see AMI
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."
PROSPERITY - A Scottish Monetary
Reform Group
run by Alistair McConnachie and James Gibb Stuart, two leading Brit
monetary Reformers, and all around good fellows. They also
sponsor the Bromsgrove annual monetary conference, near Birmingham, UK.
Truth In Money Ted
and Margaret Thoren's excellent web site
link temporarily broken
Actually its the AMI who is going over to speak to the Brits! They’ve
invited Stephen Zarlenga on a speaking tour in early
May 2004,
where
we are expected to address members of Parliament at the House of Lords,
and the various reform groups. In advance of that trip we’re linking to
the following United Kingdom websites that are strongly concerned with
monetary reform. Later we’ll report on our visit on the AMI website.
Some of these morally driven Englishmen are
working hard for monetary reform.
In fact, thanks to the Anglican Church (see last section of Chapter 20
of The Lost Science of Money) the Bank of England was nationalized in
1946.
Friend
Will Abrams,
who
attended our Monetary Reform Conference in 2005 with his wife Celia,
has put together an excellent video with Snowshoe Productions,
that tells the story of how Canada in the Great Depression implemented
some of what we are recomending for the United States. Take a
look - its an important case history supporting our program.
Paul
Grignon's "Money As Debt"
47 minute video production is a marvellous way to introduce people to
the necessity for monetary reforms: "MONEY AS
DEBT" by Paul Grignon
