Future Money

Future Money explains in plain language and convincing detail how our money system is propelling us toward the self-destruction of our species – and what we should do about it. Our present money system frustrates the well-meaning efforts of active citizens, NGOs and governments to deal with our present ills and problems – including worldwide poverty, environmental destruction, social injustice, economic inefficiency and political unrest and violence within and between nations. Failure to reform the world’s money system urgently and radically – that is, from its roots up – could bring disaster for human civilisation before the end of this century. Future Money shows clearly how our money system operates and how it could be reformed so that it acts for the benefit of people and society rather than the opposite, and describes the obstacles that currently prevent that reform. The world’s financial experts and leaders in politics, government and business, and most mainstream academic and media commentators, have demonstrated that they are not yet able or willing to diagnose and treat the profound and pervasive problems that are directly caused by the money system. Future Money speaks explicitly to active, independent-minded citizens, including young people, with the hope that it will help them to understand why people committed to careers in almost every important walk of life today find it difficult to recognise the problem and grasp the nettle. It shows why we have to take the initiative now, and urgently, to get the issue on to mainstream agendas worldwide.

"James Robertson has long been the voice of wisdom about the critical need to reform how money is created and used. It has now become absolutely urgent for both ourselves and the planet that his voice be heeded. This book brilliantly explains both the current situation and the reforms needed.", "A brilliant and acccessible guide to the fundamental flaws in our financial and economic system, with simple but incredibly effective proposals for fixing them!",  “James Robertson is an man of extraordinary experience and eminence. If we are looking for somebody to provide the world with the model it needs to save us from economic anarchy he is an ideal candidate. Unlike the critiques that have been published in their thousands by people who before 2008 had barely thought about what money is, this is a book of depth by a man who has been developing sane and equitable solutions for the past 40 years. He provides practical answers to the management of money systems at local, national and global levels. Every civil servant in the Treasury should be forced to read this book.” ,  “James Robertson is the most experienced expert in the vital area of monetary reform, ever more urgent in the continuing financial debacles triggered by Wall Street in 2008. Future Money is his magnum opus, synthesizing his key insights from 30 years of practice and scholarly activism illuminating the role of money in human societies and the secretive politics of money-creation. Robertson’s proposals for reform from global to local are still the most realistic and achievable . Newly-energized and activated by the worldwide Occupy movements of aware citizens representing 99% of humanity, Robertson’s sane, humane, ecological monetary systems are at last , flourishing worldwide in many towns, and his lifelong ethical, tenacious crusading is bearing fruit.” ,  “If a Martian landed and said take me to your future leader, how much happier we would be if we could lead them to the door of James Robertson. He is the great, creative economic thinker of recent times. Future Money explores how better systems of value and exchange could set us all free.” 

James Robertson studied classics, history and philosophy at Oxford. Described as "the grandfather of green economics" he worked in Whitehall and accompanied Harold Macmillan on his 'Wind of Change' tour of Africa in 1960. He is an independent economist who helped to set up The Other Economic Summit and the New Economics Foundation.  His other books include The Sane Alternative, Future Wealth and Future Work.