Bernard Lietaer: 3 books

As the United States struggles and the economies of Europe stagger, we fail to see a way out of this agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. In fact, there are thousands of ways to solve not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. Solutions...

Communities everywhere are challenged by issues such as health elder and child care housing education food security and the environment. On the surface these problems appear to be rooted in economic crisisfor example budget cuts have triggered reduced public services soaring food prices have created...

In this Schumacher Briefing, Richard Douthwaite argues that just as different insects and animals have different effects on human society and the natural world, money has different effects according to its origins and purposes. Was it created to make profits for a commercial bank, or issued by a government...