 | Modern money mechanics: A workbook on bank reserves and deposit expansion by Anne Marie L Gonczy
Brief volume explaining Federal Reserve and commercial banking system money creation process, what constitutes reserves, etc.
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 | Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System -- The Sleight of Hand That Has Trapped Us in Debt and How We Can Break Free by Ellen Hodgson Brown
Buy new: $22.50 / Used from: $18.46 Great concise history of our current US monetary system and its impact on our society. Up to date, with info on impact of derivatives, naked shorting on our financial system, lays it all out without political baggage.
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| Interest and inflation free money: How to create an exchange medium that works for everybody by Margrit I Kennedy
Buy used from: $99.00 This slim volume builds on ideas from Silvio Gesell to explain the wealth-transfer mechanism inherent in debt-based money and proposes a monetary structure based on money that 'rusts'. Recommend highly.
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 | The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work and a Wiser World by B.A. Lietaer
Buy used from: $602.26 A good starting point, very broad historical perspective, optimistic.
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 | The Ecology of Money (Schumacher Briefing, 4) by Richard J. Douthwaite
Buy used from: $22.68 Concise and readable, analyzes the current monetary system, explores other systems, proposes a creative alternative taking into account local, national, regional and international exchange systems.
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 | The Grip of Death: A Study of Modern Money, Debt Slavery, and Destructive Economics by Michael Rowbotham
Buy new: $25.60 / Used from: $29.63 Explains the impact on our society from our debt-based monetary system, from individuals through corporations and government, and proposes a cleaner solution. Focus on the UK, but it all applies even more so to the US.
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 | Super Imperialism - New Edition: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominanc by Michael W. Hudson
Buy new: $38.03 / Used from: $33.33 Written 1972, with a one chapter update 2005, this book explains how the US, starting after WW1, used and uses money as a weapon to secure and maintain a position as a financial empire.
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 | Money and Liberation: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements by Peter North
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $18.86 Academic social analysis of alternative monetary systems, but does a good job of bringing reality to anyone thinking of starting one.
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 | Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender by Thomas Greco
Buy new: $21.37 / Used from: $16.43 Greco profiles and critiques several types of alternative money schemes. Has a populist political leaning. Good starting volume for alternative currencies.
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 | The Money Changers: Currency Reform from Aristotle to E-Cash by David Boyle
Buy new: $32.54 / Used from: $27.95 Gives brief clips from monetary reform advocates throughout history, good as an early source for further research.
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| Money and Debt: A Solution to the Global Crisis by Thomas H., Jr. Greco
Buy used from: $18.00 very slim volume, but lots of ideas.
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 | The Case Against the Fed by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $9.00 Another slim volume, presents the libertarian case against the Federal Reserve, with the requisite gold standard plug.
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 | Free Money: Plan for Prosperity by Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $11.96 If you can get past the writing style, presents a number of intriguing ideas and challenges thinking.
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 | The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin
Buy used from: $16.50 No list on money can exempt this comprehensive history of the Federal Reserve. Heavy libertarian perspective, though.
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