Here is a short film that describes the Swiss WIR Cooperative Circle, now called the WIR Bank.
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.My previous books, as published, may be freely accessed in digital format by clicking the title below.
Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender (2001)
New Money For Healthy Communities (1994)
Money and Debt: a Solution to the Global Crisis (1980)
Collectors may find used and some new print copies of my books as published, on amazon.com and elsewhere online. Start by clicking on the title below:
Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender (2001)
Beyond Money- Putting your money where your values are April 21, 2026Redirecting our savings is an essential complement to creating independent local liquidity through private community currencies and credit clearing networks. If you want to use your savings in ways that align with your values, Community Investing 101 is a great … Continue reading →
- Existential threats and relative power define the course of the present war April 18, 2026Robert Pape, Professor of political scientist at the University of Chicago, understands international conflicts better than anyone I’ve yet encountered. In his recent post to his Substack, Why the Ceasefire Keeps Failing, he clearly describes that, in the present conflict … Continue reading →
- Money, War, and the Economics of Peace April 11, 2026The video included below is deficient in several respects and its short duration limits both the scope and debth of its coverage in explaining the main concepts and proposals that form the substance of my most important work. Despite that, … Continue reading →
- An Open Message to David Kucinich April 2, 2026Dear Dennis, I applaud your longstanding efforts on behalf of reason, peace, and monetary reform. But you must realize by now that reform is utterly impossible given the extreme centralization of monetary, financial, economic, and political power in the hands … Continue reading →
- Get ready for the shock of a lifetime March 29, 2026This video report from Alex Krainer harmonizes with what I’ve been arguing for mamy years. The fragility and faults of the centralized global debt-money regime, combined with the imperial overreach of the US and western allies are bringing the matter … Continue reading →
- A Tale of Two Systems March 16, 2026I recently viewed the video. Yanis Varoufakis: Iran War Collapses U.S. Neoliberal Economy, an interview by Glenn Diesen. Varoufakis does a very good job of exposing the fragility of the neoliberal economic model and its inability to withstand a major … Continue reading →
- How To Be An Effective Leader? March 4, 2026By Thomas H. Greco Jr. Professor Carroll Quigley was a historian and theorist who was renowned as a professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he taught many famous and influential people including Nancy Pelosi and … Continue reading →
- What’s holding back the Paradigm Shift? February 17, 2026Virtually everyone senses that there is something drastically wrong with the state of our world. Many rail against the governments, institutions, and people that they hold responsible for the various aspects they recognize as unfair, unsustainable, destructive, and utterly inhuman. … Continue reading →
- Taking Moneyless Exchange Successfully to Scale February 13, 2026In 2013 I wrote an article that was published in the online academic journal, Internet Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR). That article, Taking Moneyless Exchange to Scale: Measuring and Maintaining the Health of a Credit Clearing System, was intended … Continue reading →
- Reclaiming Your Savings February 7, 2026Upon the recent completion and publication of my new Chapter 20—Exchange, Finance, and the Store of Value, for the revised edition of my book, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization, I loaded it into NotebookLM and asked … Continue reading →
- Putting your money where your values are April 21, 2026
