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Monetary Institute ISBN
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Dr. Michael
Kumhof, Deputy Division Chief,
Modeling Division, Research Department, of the International Monetary
Fund
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Money book -
"A
masterful work."
(from page 13 of his IMF working
paper, The Chicago Plan Revisited, which
has swept the economic world by storm)
“This book looks
marvelously helpful and has some stunning historical vistas of the
whole concept of media of exchange.”
- Hugh Downs
"Stephen Zarlenga's
Lost
Science of Money book
provides the needed background for seeing the basic structural issues
at work."
- Dr. Michael
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By examining the results evident in
historical examples; in the first 23 chapters, the author arrives at a
discovery of the essential
nature of money; a feat not adequately achieved by the various schools
of economics over the preceding three centuries. Civilizations rise and
fall, on this concept of money.
Chapter 24 then applies that knowledge
to understand what's needed for U.S. monetary reform emphasizing the
minimal acts to
put time on the side of justice. See below for details.
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From
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WHAT’S GONE WRONG?
Unheard of wealth concentrates
into very few, largely undeserving hands. Americans work harder and
produce more than ever but increasingly fall into debt and bankruptcy
while corruption rules, and predators plunder society by merely
shuffling papers. Less than 1% of the population now owns about 50% of
the wealth, and receives 17% of the income! The Lost Science of Money
shows how a false concept of money allowed it to happen,
and tells how to reverse it.
SECRET
POWER UNMASKED
Here are the keys that unlock
the mystery of the money power - the hidden force secretly exercised by
those holding society’s monetary reins.
The Lost Science of Money exposes the mythology created to protect
those who are embezzling from society, under cover of a deceptive
ideology of money. This group has immorally used economic theory as a
tool of class war for the past three hundred years, while screaming
accusations of “class warfare” against those who question their power!
The author provides the weapons needed to protect self, family, nation,
and humanity from the predations of this gang, that has shrouded itself
under cover of “econo-speak” for so long.
These ideas are presented accurately, but in "down-to-earth" language,
without the confusing economic jargon that has usually served to
obfuscate the subject. Historical cases with 119 illustrations help to
convey the author’s unique message.
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A
GENERATION MISLED
The gates protecting America
have been left undefended. September 11th demonstrated only one aspect
of this problem. Our people have been under monetary attack from within
and from abroad for most of our history, and the physical, financial
and psychological damage has far exceeded the terrible losses at New
York’s Twin Towers.
An entire generation has been led astray into market worship and other
forms of religious fundamentalism.
A dysfunctional media focuses on the elections and sex habits of
politicians while the real outcomes in society are determined behind
the scenes by the structure of the nation’s money system.
This problem goes much deeper than accounting and stock fraud, and even
beyond the graduate schools of business that have inculcated such
criminal behavior. The deeper cause lies hidden in the structurally
corrupt core of our monetary and banking system and our schools of
economics. It arises from the falsehoods they have spread on the nature
of money, allowing their patrons to control the money power, and in
turn to dominate our society, deforming humanity in the process.
Those who really want to get to the bottom of the problem will find
this book’s message timely and valuable. See the Table of Contents
below.
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The author at 26, and now. Though a bit
more seasoned, he keeps a youthful attitude.
The
Lost
Science of Money by Stephen A. Zarlenga:
*Traces
the money power through three
and a half
millennia from barter to the Euro.
* Draws
fascinating,
previously lost monetary principles from ancient Greece and Rome, from
the experience of the Moslems, Venice, the Templars, the Jews, the Bank
of Amsterdam and Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve System.
*Shows that the question of usury is
far from settled, and that
monetary reform is more a matter of morality and law than of economics.
*Demonstrates
that a good money system must be based in law, not in
commodities.
*Defines the essential elements needed
to remove
structural injustice from our money system.
About
the Author:
Stephen
Zarlenga draws on 35 years of experience in the world of
finance, securities, insurance, mutual funds, real estate, and futures
trading. He has published 20 books on money, banking, politics and
philosophy (including The Anglo American Establishment, by Prof. Carrol
Quigley). While in his mid 20s he incorporated the Athenian branch of
an English life insurance company, earlier opening several European
markets for the parent firm, IOS.
A few years later he built the
U.S.
distribution network of the then
leading American mutual fund concentrating in gold shares. As a member
of the New York Futures Exchange (a subsidiary of the New York Stock
Exchange) he specialized in trading the complex CRB futures index for
several years. Thus the author is more than familiar with both the
practical and theoretical sides of our market economy.
Yet he calls into question and challenges the
basis, and Achilles’
heel, of American Capitalism: the private control and resulting
misdirection of the nation’s monetary system.
Stephen
Zarlenga holds a degree in Psychology from the University of
Chicago (and has done postgraduate work at NYU), where he was in the
final graduating class under the revered Hutchins’ curriculum which
focused on critical reading and thought. This training, combined with
his work experience, and years of research, enabled him to re-formulate
the Lost Science of Money.
The
author began
focused research on the
money
problem in 1991, eventually drawing on over 800 monetary source books
and materials to formulate this thesis. In 1996, he helped establish
the American Monetary Institute to further the research. In 1999,
Conzett Verlag of Zurich, Switzerland translated and published the work
in German. This expanded English version released in 2002, establishes
the author as a leading voice in the field of monetary history, theory
and reform.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(order
form below)
CHAPTERS:
| 1. The Origins of Money
Systems |
13. The Usury Debate
Continues |
| 2. Rome's Bronze Nomisma:
Better Than Gold |
14. U.S. Colonial Moneys |
| 3. A Monetary View Of
Rome's Decline |
15. The Money Power vs. The
Constitution
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| 4. Re-Instituting Money In
The West |
16. U.S. Government Money
vs Private Money |
| 5. Crusades End Byzantium's
Monetary Control |
17. The Greenbacks: Real
American Money |
6. Renaissance Struggles
For Monetary Dominance
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18. Nineteenth Century
Monetary Crimes -
The Great Deflations |
| 7. The Scholastics - The
Moral Economists |
19. Establishment Of The
Federal Reserve |
8. 1500 - History's Pivot:
Power Shifts From
The Mediterranean To The North Sea |
20. Federal Reserve System
Wrecks America |
| 9. The Rise Of Capitalism
In Amsterdam |
21. Germany's 1923
Hyper-Inflation Under A Private Central Bank |
| 10. Transferring Capitalism
To England |
22. International Monetary
Organizations |
| 11. Hatching The Bank Of
England |
23. The European Monetary
Union |
| 12. Political Economists:
Priesthood Of The Bankers Theology |
24. Proposals For U.S.
Monetary Reform |
Comments
From Some
Smart People:
Dr. Michael Kumhof
Deputy Division Chief, Modeling Division, Research Department, of the
International Monetary Fund, from page 13 of his IMF working paper The Chicago Plan Revisited,
gave this one sentence review of The Lost Science of
Money -
"A
masterful work."
From Hugh
Downs
"You are right that I have a
long-standing interest in monetary
matters...This book looks marvelously helpful and has some stunning
historical vistas of the whole concept of media of exchange.”
- Mr. Hugh Downs,
Former “Tonight
Show” co-star; decades with ABC News, including
co-hosting “The 20/20 Show.” Presently affiliated with the Hugh Downs
School of Broadcasting at Arizona State University.
From
Florence, Italy
“Thank you for the
copy of your
chapter on Rome’s money, which I read
with great pleasure. I have learnt a lot from it. And I am glad you
share my approach in perusing Classical texts.”
- Prof. Emelio
Peruzzi,
Author of Money in
Ancient Rome (1984); perhaps the finest book on that
subject.
From
Todd Altman's Reviews
“Stephen Zarlenga's
groundbreaking,
exhaustively researched book -- The
Lost Science of Money -- explodes various myths surrounding both the
history and nature of money, and proposes what I believe is a
long-overdue reform of our monetary system. Zarlenga makes a compelling
argument that most of the world's economic problems are heavily rooted
in the inherently corrupt nature of debt-based, privately-controlled
money systems. Under these systems, private banks are allowed to
extract enormous amounts of wealth from the global and national
economies in exchange for the nothing out of which they create the
money they loan....The Lost Science of Money is an absolute must-read
for all Americans. Why? Because nothing touches our lives more than
money, yet very few of us know much about either the history or nature
of money -- what little we do know being heavily influenced by the
myths and half-truths propagated by debt-money and/or hard-money
advocates. This book will help change all that. - The Book That Neither
Debt-Money nor Hard-Money Advocates Want You to Read”
- Todd Altman,
Reviewer of books
on money Click here to see
the whole Review
From Chicago
"If Zarlenga's book had
been out there in the 60's and 70's we would have known what to have
done beyond being flower children."
- Steven Walsh,
Chicago Educator
From
London
“Many thanks for sending
me a copy of your stimulating book The Lost
Science of Money. I have now managed to work through the volume with
great interest and I certainly appreciate the wealth of historical
research which has gone into its composition. I have learnt a great
deal.”
- G.K. Shaw,
Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Buckingham, UK
From ACRES
U.S.A.
“A full recitation of...what
has
happened (monetarily) in America can
be found in Stephen Zarlenga's masterpiece, The Lost Science of
Money.”“If the farm organizations...would all invest $50 in Stephen
Zarlenga's Masterpiece, The Lost Science of Money, and a smaller amount
in our Unforgiven, a clear public policy might emerge, and the Union
that Lincoln saved once before might be saved again."
- Charles Walters,
Executive Editor,
ACRES U.S.A.
From
The Green Party of England
“This book is timely…The
naïve view that money is merely a neutral
medium-of-exchange is conclusively demolished…The long held belief in
the commodity nature of money is also totally demolished and the
damaging effects of this belief through history are analyzed in great
detail.”
- Brian Leslie,
From
Washington DC
“Stephen
Zarlenga’s book entitled The
Lost Science of Money, is one of
the most important books published in the world in the past 200 years.
Someday it will be recognized for the classic that it is… reform along
the lines Zarlenga recommends could transform the economy of the world
into a system that would benefit everyone, not just the monetary
plutocrats who preside over the globalistic cannibalism that runs amok
today… Stephen Zarlenga has proven once and for all how wrong their
assumptions are, how rotten and ill-conceived the present system really
is, and how a few basic reforms could make an enormous difference in
the life of the people of our nation and the world.”
Richard C. Cook,
former
U.S. Treasury official and author of "Challenger Revealed"
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From
Beloit
Wisconsin:
“This is an impressive and
comprehensive volume detailing the history
of money and monetary systems from earliest times up to the present.
The Book is chronological and deeply interesting….This history paints a
new canvas.”
- John Stoner -
for Groundswell Newsletter (Click to see the
whole Review)
From New
York
City:
“As
global(monopol)ization
increases
its assault on democratic
institutions, The Lost Science of Money, eagerly-awaited, is here at
last. Stephen Zarlenga's magnum opus promises to give us all the
abundant treasures unearthed by his many years of digging among the
ruins of lost civilizations -- perhaps in timeto rescue our
own...Stephen Zarlenga has broken new ground...He presents his findings
in a style that is understandable to the layperson yet based on
painstaking research. His conclusions, like Henry George's, are radical
in
the best senses of the word: going to the root;
on behalf of liberty
and community.”
- Mark A. Sullivan,
President, Council of Georgist Organizations
From
Chicago:
“Examining
the 3,000-year
history of
money, Zarlenga argues that
economic theory has been used as a tool of class warfare and that a
generation has been led astray into market worship.”
- University of Chicago Alumni Magazine, December, 03
From
San
Francisco:
“I am very impressed
with the amount of research you have done,
and I’m
sure others will be also.”
- Robert de Fremery,
Lifelong Monetary Researcher and Reformer, formerly with Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Author of Rights vs. Privileges (1992);
and Money and Freedom (1955).
From
Canada:
“Congratulations on publishing
The
Lost Science of Money…There are
illuminations on the nature of the banking system in the U.S., and the
rest of the world for that matter, which should shock many a lay person
like myself who would then come to the ineluctable conclusion that the
usurpation of the money power by private interests has been a primary
source of world depredation. Once again kudos on this significant
contribution to the universe of discourse on the money power!”
- Francis Peddle,
Educator and
Attorney; Director, Schalkenbach Foundation
From
Washington DC:
“Stephen Zarlenga’s new
book is a popular, uncensored presentation of a
very large subject…not just a technical tome about the nature of money
itself, this is rather a monetary interpretation of history, something
that has never been done before. Instead of starting out with
modern-day assumptions about money, Zarlenga goes back to the earliest
times and lets the story unfold naturally from there.
The book seems
destined to become a classic.”
- John Tiffany, American Free Press
From
Baltimore:
“That Saturday afternoon
session on monetary policy & reform was
the first time I felt like I was really understanding the monetary
ideas and argumentsbeing presented; you, and your colleagues on the
panel, did a nice job of keeping things clear.”
- Hanno T. Beck, Banneker Center for Economic Justice
From
California:
“You have written the
book for which I was desperately searching…How
you have managed to unearth so much hidden financial history is a
source of amazement… It reads like a detective novel, and an exciting
one at that! It’s wonderful stuff! Reading your book is like drinking
nectar. It remains to be seen if it will light the path to reforms that
might save the present incarnation of Western Civilization from
destruction. That, in my guesstimation, is your motive. Regardless, the
book is excellent. It will become a classic.”
- Dr. Lewis Coleman
From
Pittsburgh:
“Monetary reformer
Stephen Zarlenga has clearly detailed the processes
by which banks control and usurp the natural return to capital, just as
landlords control and usurp the natural return to land. Zarlenga cuts
through the intrigues of banking by going straight to the principles of
an equitable currency system.
His ideas give a clear vision of how money should be issued, how land
and money issues interlock, and how land reformers and money reformers
can work together to free humanity.”
- Dan Sullivan,
Director, Center for Local Tax Research
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From
Chicago:
“Stephen,
Received your book
(although "book" sounds far too common, I can't seem
to find the right words to express your work's grandeur). Now I see
that money has been corrupted through private individuals usurping a
public institution for their own benefit. Hats off! First, for your
clear and intelligent exposition,
and secondly, for your courage to
present the truth.”
- David Hershey,
Leading Pension Plan Investment Strategist
From
Idaho:
“Congratulations on the
monumental effort in “The Lost Science of
Money,” the completion of which is utterly critical for advancing human
understanding. There are many “new age” individuals who raise hope by
explaining there is a miraculous raising
of the consciousness of the
masses going on...
but consciousness is advanced only with hard mental
work, research, study and perseverance.”
- A Financial
Specialist
From Gramling, South Carolina
“This book ... (is)
Highly provocative and highly recommended.”
- Carl Watner,
Editor, The
Voluntaryist Newsletter
From
Australia:
“A quick 'read-in'
yesterday night got me hooked quickly... not a book
to read in one gulp... but an enormous resource! We will certainly be
promoting it; we're into alternative currencies, community energy
exchange networks and such..." Congratulations from the underside (or
is it the upperside?) of the world!”
- Jacques Boulet, Manager, Borderlands Co-operative
From
Chicago's
ILLINOIS GEORGIST:
“It is interesting to
compare this book with Progress and Poverty.”
- Chuck Metalitz
Director, Henry George School of Social Science, Chicago
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From
Indiana:
“Dr. C. recommended a
wonderful book called, “The Lost Science of
Money” by Stephen Zarlenga. I loved this book. I inhaled it….Zarlenga
has written a wonderful summary of the economic history of the Western
World…I strongly urge you to read this book.”
- George Blackburne III, Blackburne & Brown Investor Letter
From
Washington DC:
“Congratulations
Stephen!”
- Douglas Mudd
Smithsonian Institution Numismatic Department
From Zurich's
MONEYMUSEUM:
“Many thanks for your
great book. It looks wonderful.
I brought it to Martin B.... and he just kept it !!!....”
- Dr. Jurg Conzett,
Founder, The MONEYMUSEUM and many other important activities.
From an Australian
Diplomat:
“The Lost Science of Money took
a long
while to reach me and I have not
read all of it yet but, Stephen, it is a great contribution to
financial and
economic thinking - indeed, one of the greatest contributions I have
read in
recent times. The people to whom you have been talking seem equally
impressed and I
hope the re-thinking you have stimulated will continue.”
- James Cumes,
Ret. Diplomat, active author, thinker, and originator of VOW (Victory
over Want)
From
Maine:
“Three cheers for Steve
Zarlenga's The Lost Science of Money. He
performs an incredibly valuable service by cogently detailing and
exploring the writings and the events of one of the most important
issues in any society...(He) makes crystal clear that although long
neglected, it is absolutely critical that many more people understand
the nature of money...(to achieve) a transition to a rational and fair
money system, constituted for the public good and general welfare....He
points out reasonable and proven approaches...and specific suggestions.
The real problem is the will to act from understanding and the
resistance from those benefiting from the current system.”
- R.C. Stuart
From
Marion
Indianna:
“Well, having actually
finished The Lost Science of Money, I will be
able to
die a little less frustrated. I am reminded of my experience of many
years ago
wading through Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov with this
difference: At least with Dostoevsky I didn't feel compelled to
underline
every other sentence.”
- Daniel Bollhoefer, - A reader I am proud to have.
A
“Mini-Review” From Silicon Valley California:
“Incredible
book! ... Your book is the answer to my prayers... I
received a BA in economics from University of California, San Diego...
have been wanting to reconstruct the
discipline...to make
economics more spiritual, moral,
and environmentally friendly in orientation.”
“Now, your book comes along and it is rich with
the historical
perspective and answers to the questions that I am seeking.
Thank you for doing
this massive research. I am almost short of breath as to how you have
managed to gather so much detail and put it into a coherent -- albeit
at times complicated -- understanding of monetary systems.”
“And, to say that your work is only about
"monetary systems" is
misleading:
it really is about exposing human games and schemes that,
when insinuated into the population at large,
has this terrible
emergent property of poverty, war, deprivation, inequality, and
injustice.”
“Your book shows that there is a science to
money, based on conscious
human design, with best results stemming from wide understanding and
open agreement by society at large. And what is most exciting in the
understanding of money that you have brought forth, is that it appears
to resolve some of the most vexing social problems that have faced
humanity. A single human innovation -- money and how it is politically
established
as a means of exchange -- can determine, in one human act
of design,
the quality of life for all people. Amazing!”
“The structural design of money can make
spontaneous in individual
humans, moral and socially responsible action. Getting the money system
right can lead to
the alignment of individual and collective action of
people.”
-Torrey Byles,
Granada Research, Half Moon Bay, California
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From Andre
Bruneau, Author if "A Question of
Interest"
"Dear Mr Zarlenga,
I have
just finished reading The Lost Science of
Money and am overwhelmed. Your knowledge, your purity of thoughts and
your humanity are only equaled by your courage. It has been a privilege
to read your work and my only regret is that it was still a work in
progress at the time my own humble effort on an adjoining theme was
published. Many of my errors would have been prevented."
Finally
from a County
Chair of the Libertarian Party:
“I want to
thank you
for your very
enjoyable/important book and your other work, website, tapes, etc. You
have shed much light on this $ubject for me. A learned friend... has
been working with me on ideas for a course at the University of _____
using your book, etc...and I was wondering if you had any ideas on how
best to facilitate.
Btw, as a rather
silent county chair for the Libertarian Party, I
applaud your attempt to
rattle a few
cage$. I would love to hear you speak at our State
Convention!”
- Dana Snowman -
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