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Useful Organisations |
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| American Monetary Institute | independent study of monetary theory, history and reform |
| Bank of England | Bulletin: Money in the modern economy – an introduction; explains how money is created, if you find it difficult to believe |
| Ethex | helping people invest in socially-beneficial businesses and projects, and receive a better return than from a bank |
Ethical Investment Research Services |
independent research into the social, environmental and ethical performance of companies |
| Ethiscore | rates companies and products against a range of environmental and ethical criteria |
| Fair Pensions | campaigning to ensure that pension funds do not invest in unethical practices such as child labour |
| FEASTA | exploring possibilities for a sustainable economy |
| institute for Leadership and Sustainability | IFLAS run a regular MOOC (massive open online course) about money – it’s free and very enlightening |
| International Movement for Monetary Reform | Network of organisations in several countries educating their populations about the corrupt monetary system |
| Monneta | charity founded by the late, great Margrit Kennedy, to promote alternatives to the current financial system; lots of useful resources |
| New Economics Foundation | radical think tank challenging the dominant global economic ideas |
| Positive Money | Group that explains the money system well – lots of information on their website; their solution is to take the power to create money out of the hands of private banks and to give it to a public body. |
Blogs & information |
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| Alastair McIntosh | article on the history of usury prohibition |
| Brett Scott | altered states of monetary consciousness |
| Debunking Economics | Steve Keen’s website – critic on neoclassical economics, and one of the few who predicted the 2008 crash |
| the Ecology of Money | read Richard Douthwaite’s book online |
| Exorbitant privilege | the benefit US businesses get from the dollar being the global reserve currency; other countries need dollars, especially to buy oil; the dollar maintains a high value; raw materials and products from overseas are relatively cheap for US businesses and consumers |
| Full Reserve Banking | starting point for anyone wanting to research alternatives to the fractional reserve banking system |
| Global Research | who owns the Federal Reserve? |
| Islamic Finance | debate on usury-free banking |
| Michael Hudson | analysis of the geo-political machinations of global economics |
| Money as Debt | first in a series of videos on how money is issued as debt, by Paul Grignon |
| the Money Masters | documentary and campaigning for monetary reform |
| the Money Project | all the world’s money and markets in one incredible visualisation |
| The Role of Money – what it should be contrasted with what it has become | full text of a book by Frederick Soddy, critical of economic growth and fractional reserve banking |
| Rolling Stone | Famous Matt Taibbi ‘giant vampire squid’ article about Goldman Sachs’ political influences |
