Complementary currencies work in addition to existing money, rather than replacing existing, official money. There are whole different families of co…

- Bernard Lietaer

Basically, for any complex to be sustainable needs to have a balance between two factors: resilience and efficiency. These two factors can be calcula…

- Bernard Lietaer

Conventional money is supposed to be doing everything. By adding in complementary currencies, you actually get different types of things and differen…

- Bernard Lietaer

The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.

- Bernard Lietaer

Money is created through bank debt. When you go for a mortgage through a bank, they give you $100,000 to buy a house and basically send you out into …

- Bernard Lietaer

When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,0…

- Bernard Lietaer

Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will…

- Bernard Lietaer

Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less diversity o…

- Bernard Lietaer

The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World

- Bernard Lietaer