Is Cash Outdated or a Necessary Feature of our Economy?

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Watch this brilliant video by Brett Scott about the role of cash yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization

The first edition of my book, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization, was published by Chelsea Green Publishing in 2009. While it remains as relevant today as it was when first published the printed book has been out of print for several years. But, having had the rights reverted to me by my publisher, I am making the entire book available for free in PDF format. You can read it or download it HERE. If you would like a hard copy of the first edition used copies can still be found on Amazon.com, Abe books, Thrift books and elsewhere.

Better still, you can avail yourself of the new revised and expanded 2024 edition which I have been working on for almost two years and is almost complete. Eighteen chapters have already been posted and can be freely read or download HERE.

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Money and Debt: a Solution to the Global Crisis
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My Audio-Visual Presentations
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- 2006-02 How to Build Healthy Community Economies, Auroville, India–Q&A
- 2006-09 Keynote Presentation to the International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA)
- 2007-05 Lecture about the real secret of money
- 2007-06 China presentations. (Recordings not available)
- 2007-08 Auroville-Community and Economy: A rational approach to sustainability, harmony, and prosperity
- 2007-Presentation at the Gold Dinar Conference-The End of Money and the Liberation of Exchange
- 2009-05-05 The End of Money and the Future of Civilization-IONS
- 2009-08 The End of Money, Tucson
- 2009-08-24 Basic Business Issues for Enabling Local Exchange, Tucson
- 2009-10 Panel Sessions at the Economics of Peace conference
- 2009-10 presentation -The Economics of Peace, Justice and Sustainability
- 2009-11 My presentations at the Conference on Michigan’s Future Energy, Economy & Environment (files 140 and 141, and 595 and 596, respectively)
- 2009-11 The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
- 2009-Cutting Edge Capital Raising for Small Business--Panel Discussion
- 2010 Reclaiming the Credit Commons
- 2011 FPA Presentation-Financial Planning in the Emerging Butterfly Economy-Movie with narrative
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- 2011-11. The Emerging Butterfly Society – Thomas Greco
- 2012-A New Paradigm in Exchange and Finance: The pathway to peace, justice, freedom, and a dignified life for all
- 2013-06 Value Measurement Discussion
- 2013-Understanding Diverse Exchange System Models -- IRTA Panel
- 2014-10-The Evolution of Money and its Potential to Improve Humanity
- 2014-Money, Power, Democracy, and War
- 2016-10 A World Without Money and Interest: A pathway toward social justice and economic equity
- 2017 Disruptive Technologies Making Money Obsolete
- 2020 The Exchange Revolution: taking moneyless exchange to a new level
- 2020-04 A Conversation about the Dysfunctions of Money, and the Need for Decentralized Exchange Alternatives
- 2020-09 IRTA: The Butterfly Economy and the Role of Commercial Trade Exchanges In It
- 2020-09 What if things had gone differently?
- 2021-05&06 Webinar series: Our Money System – What’s Wrong with it and How to Fix it
- 2021-07 Solar Dollars–Empowering Communities While Powering Communities With Renewable Energy
- 2021-11 Transcending the present political money system–the urgent need and the way to do it.
- 2021-11 Transcending… Q&A
- 2022-09 Private and complementary currency systems-Summary
- 2022-09 Private and complementary currency systems: purposes, principles, practices, and performance
- 2023-02 Alternative Currencies and Solar Dollars–Why we need them; How they work
- 2023-02-Monnaies alternatives et dollars solaires. French subtitles
- 2023-08 The Tyranny that is the Global Money System
- 2024-07 Money, Power, Democracy, and War, a Webinar on Humanity Rising
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- 2024-11 Invoice Factoring Video
- Just Cooperate–What we can learn from nature
- My 2 Minute “Elevator Speech” About Solving the Money Problem
- There once was a river, …an allagorical tale
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- 2003-06-26 Democratizing Money on Network X
- 2006-03 Interview by Sebastian Cortes at Auroville, India
- 2009-10 Interview of Thomas H. Greco by Daniel Pinchbeck
- 2009 Interview on Green Planet Radio, New Zealand.
- 2009 Interview on New Dimensions Radio–Toward a Credit Commons
- 2009 Interview on New Dimensions Radio: Investing in the Bank of You and Me
- 2009-04. Thomas Greco's Interview by Kim Hill of Radio New Zealand.
- 2009-06 Interview on The Power Hour with Joyce Riley
- 2009-07 interview featuring Thomas Greco and Annette Riggs on The Power Hour with Joyce Riley
- 2009-10 Interview with Daniel Pinchbeck (4 parts)
- 2009-11-05 Thomas Greco Interview on KBCS, One World Report.
- 2010 (June) Interview of Thomas Greco by Ken Rose, KOWS
- 2010 (March) interview, Irish Side of the Moon
- 2011-06 Interview by KMO for C-Realm Podcast
- 2011 Interview by Frank Touby, The Bulletin, Toronto
- 2011 Interview by Hugh Reilly, ThatChannel, Toronto
- 2012 – The End of Money as We Know It and the Future of Civilization. Interview by Jay Taylor
- 2013-The Debt Growth Imperative. Interview with Community Currencies in Action
- 2014-12 Interview on Bartertown Radio
- 2015-08 The changing picture in complementary currencies
- 2017-03-15 interview on Primo Radical podcast #121
- 2019-02. Why the future of money is mutual credit (and not Bitcoin)
- 2019-10 interview on Ellen Brown's podcast, It's Our Money
- 2020-10 My interview with Patricia Cori on Beyond the Matrix
- 2021-04 Discussion with Intercoin founder Greg Magarshak
- 2021-05 — Conversation with Edgar Cahn, Tim Jenkin, et al
- 2021-12-30 Interview on It's Our Money with Ellen Brown
- 2023-02 Alternative Currencies and Solar Dollars–Why we need them; How they work
- 2023-04 My interview with Alasdair Lord, the "Renaissance Yorkshireman"
- 2023-05 My conversation with Emily Peyton and Jim Hoag
- 2024-02-24 Interview with Bruce de Torres on TNT Radio
- 2024-05 Interview with Pelle Neroth Taylor on TNT Radio
- 2024-07 Interiew on Humanity Rising with Jim Garrison
- 2025-03 Interview on Primo Radical
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Excerpts and Monographs
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- Youth Employment Scrip
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- How to Bring Liquidity Into an Economy, Free of Interest, Inflation, and Boom and Bust Cycles
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- Money and Finance Have Now Been Completely Collectivized
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- The Henry George Academy
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