Future Money Book Endorsements
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“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.”
Hazel Henderson - author, Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, President, Ethical Markets
Media (USA and Brazil)
“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.”
Ed Mayo - Secretary General, Co-operatives
UK
“The shape of the future depends
on whether - and how quickly - the world wakes up and
realises that the economy must work within ecological
limits. Future Money explains why this is the case and
is a call to each and every one of us to challenge prevailing
assumptions about the economy, as well as contribute
to a different way of thinking and acting. Recommended
reading if you think the economy exists in order to benefit
people and planet rather than just a tool for the rich
to get richer.”
Caroline Lucas, MP
“People still ignore the chronic
dysfunctionalities at the heart of our money system,
and refuse to acknowledge how big a part that ‘failed
system’ plays in our current economic crisis. Future
Money lays bare those dysfunctionalities with forensic
skill, unhesitatingly ‘naming names’ as to
who is responsible, and then lays out a programme of
radical reform for our money system that is utterly compelling.
I can guarantee it will change the way people think about
today’s crisis – and, hopefully, the way
they act.”
Jonathon Porritt - Founder, Forum for
the Future
“James Robertson in lucid and clear
arguments exposes the unsound system on which money rests.
Through his deep analysis of today’s financial
crisis, Robertson’s Future Money gives an honest
and convincing look at how today’s money system
has to change now, before it is too late. An important
resource for all of us concerned to act to ensure our
collective future.”
Wendy Harcourt - Editor Development,
International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University,
The Hague
“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.”
Molly Scott Cato - Reader
in Green Economics, Cardiff School of Management
“James Robertson has provided clear,
convincing and practical proposals for comprehensive
modernisation of world monetary systems, a subject on
which he has been a leading thinker for four decades.
Given the current financial crisis the time has come
for economic and political leaders to pay close attention
to his wise counsel.”
Mary Mellor - author ‘The Future
of Money: From financial crisis to public resource’ (Pluto
2010)
“Money is a manmade device which
dominates our lives. Yet few people really understand
how the monetary system actually works. James Robertson
has a clear grasp of this complex subject, which makes
his latest book, Future Money, both fascinating to read
and vitally important in helping us to understand the
radical reforms which are urgently required. His explanation
of how money is created and how governments collect and
spend it will be a revelation to most people – even
to many bankers! By reminding us that money is our servant,
this book shows how money can be used as the means by
which we can create a new economic system that is both
just and sustainable. This is a book that has to be read
not just by politicians and bankers, but by every citizen
who wants to escape the tyranny of money and the austerity
regimes that it is currently imposing on us.”
James
Skinner - Trustee, Organic Research Centre and Trustee
Emeritus, the new economics foundation
“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
is heeded. This book brilliantly explains both the current
situation and the reforms needed.”
Stewart Wallis - Executive Director,
nef (new economics foundation)
“A brilliant and accessible guide to the fundamental
flaws in our financial and economic system, with simple
but incredibly effective proposals for fixing them!”
Ben Dyson - Founder, Positive Money
Further endorsements not included in the book
“This is a truly remarkable book setting out the
basis for a comprehensive modernisation of the world’s
money system. It is extremely timely, easy to ready,
up-top-the minute in its analysis and crystal clear on
what needs to be done and how it can be done. James Robertson
provides a badly-needed blueprint on how the money system
can be redeveloped and managed purposefully to reconcile
money values with ecological and social values. Up to
the very high standard James Robertson has maintained
for so many decades.”
Dr Seán Healy
- S.M.A, Director
Social Justice Ireland
“With his usual clarity, James Robertson sets
out the basics of what everyone ought to know about the
global money system. Equally clear are his recommendations
about what needs to be done about the system’s
manifest current dysfunction. It is to be hoped that
they start a wide public debate that takes financial
reform far further and faster than seems to be envisaged
at present.”
Professor Paul Ekins - Energy
and Environmental Policy, University College London
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