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Like the proverbial fish who doesn’t know what water is, we swim in an economy built on money that few of us comprehend, and, most definitely, what we don’t know is hurting us.

Very few people realize that the nature of money has changed profoundly over the past three centuries, or—as has been clear with the latest global financial crisis—the extent to which it has become a political instrument used to centralize power, concentrate wealth, and subvert popular government. On top of that, the economic growth imperative inherent in the present global monetary system is a main driver of global warming and other environmental crises.

The End of Money and the Future of Civilization demystifies the subjects of money, banking, and finance by tracing historical landmarks and important evolutionary shifts that have changed the essential nature of money. Greco’s masterful work lays out the problems and then looks to the future for a next stage in money’s evolution that can liberate us as individuals and communities from the current grip of centralized and politicized money power.

Greco provides specific design proposals and exchange-system architectures for local, regional, national, and global financial systems. He offers strategies for their implementation and outlines actions grassroots organizations, businesses, and governments will need to take to achieve success.

Ultimately, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization provides the necessary understanding— for entrepreneurs, activists, and civic leaders—to implement approaches toward monetary liberation. These approaches would empower communities, preserve democratic institutions, and begin to build economies that are sustainable, democratic, and insulated from the financial crises that plague the dominant monetary system.

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  6. ISBN-10
    1603580786
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    978-1603580786
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Customers find the book provides clear explanations of money theory and its complexities. They appreciate the author's deep knowledge and the concise, clear presentation. The book is described as comprehensive and a must-read, providing a cogent and lucid explanation of money issues. Readers also mention that it may save them a lifetime of savings.

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  • ETNIKS
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tom Greco has the deepest grasp of the main problem in today's world
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2013
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    This book was recommended by a friend and I was totally mesmerized by the author's deep knowledge and the ease, concise, plain explanations of a subject I have been immersed in for many years now. Greco's approach is not only accurately explaining the facts, but also offering responses to solving the problems caused by Debt-Based money, presenting well documented cases.
    The whole narrative is permeated by a deep sense of love for humanity and the very positive outcomes possible once we become aware, as a society, of the mechanism being used to siphon-off people's and the Real Economy's wealth, by those controlling the creation of money.
    To me his book is the culmination of all other films, books and hundreds of articles I had read on the subject, rendering it a "must-read" for all of those, like me, who recognize that the biggest theft in the history of humanity is taking place as we speak, using as a means the Fractional Reserve Banking System prevalent around the world.
    Hopefully one day the Mainstream Media AND the "alternative" Media will come to disseminate the fact it is not the banksters themselves BUT THE BANKING AND MONETARY SYSTEM ITSELF what has to be changed altogether.
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    After reading several of the negative comments on Greco's book while prizing Niall Ferguson's "more of the same old BS - The Ascent of Money", I decided to offer the following links to videos that will help readers with a base to understand easier what Thomas Greco is talking about.

    Google the following:

    A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO THE DEBT CRISIS - POSITIVE MONEY 3 minutes
    MONEY AS DEBT - 47 minutes
    Debunking Money - 1 Myth and Machiavelli 11 min
    THE ESSENCE OF THE BANKING SECTOR 3 minutes
    12 yr old Victoria Grant explains how banks commit fraud 6 min
    FREEDOM TO FASCISM (16th Amendment, Taxes, Tyranny) 118 min
    THE MONEY MASTERS 219 minutes
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  • William Shepherd
    5.0 out of 5 stars New Synthesis for discerning radicals on the money problem
    Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2009
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    The End of Money and the Future of Civilization by Thomas H. Greco Jr. is the first coherent and intelligible narrative on why the money problem matters and how to do something about it. A masterly synthesis followed by innovative proposals on what must be done. Greco's chapter on the evolution of money is one of few accurate accounts since Hartley Withers...Walter Bagehot's son-in-law and a former editor of The Economist...wrote The Meaning of Money a century ago. Greco is one of a select few to have understood the deceit inherent in the Venetian trick of double entry book-keeping that makes credit money appear the same as 'claim check' money...despite its vastly different default risk. For Greco, the way forward is not to return to metallic money, but to separate 'Money and State' and harness the power of credit money, not for the benefit of a tiny elite who deploy it to destroy the planet and starve the southern half to death, but for the common good. A lucid introduction to the money problem comes from the Canadian economist Paul Grignon as the third part of Money as Debt at [...]. This is an accurate and comprehensive account of the money issue and its complexities and covers the complete contents of this Pandora's Box instead of peeling off a tiny layer from the Loan-Interest-Debt (LID) issue and claiming it as everything...as Truthers and Environmentalists tend to do. The narrative of the film follows closely the Greco line and begins and ends with a quote from E.C. Riegel...the writer on monetary matters that Greco has long exhorted non-specialists to read. As few will have struggled through to the end of this book to understand the butterfly emerging after the attempts over millennia to make the caterpillar fly, watch the Grignon film first before grappling with Greco's book.
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  • Harold J. Henning MD
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    Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2009
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    Enjoyed the principles and applications. It will be interesting to see how much it applies to the future...
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  • PR Glaser
    5.0 out of 5 stars A book that has fundamentally changed my understanding of money and human exchange
    Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2013
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    The End of Money tells the story of how a new exchange medium (money) based on mutual credit clearing has the potential to resolve many of the problems with our current money system.

    Greco begins by providing a clear description of our current debt-backed credit money system and the process by which money is created (including how commercial banks and the Federal Reserve can increase the money supply by 'creating it out of thin air'). He also provides a clear definition of inflation (the improper issuance of money into the economy) and describes how central banks and commercial banks routinely issue money on an improper basis.

    After setting the stage, Greco discusses the core function of money as a medium of exchange and narrates how money has evolved from commodity and symbolic money to the credit money we know today. He then introduces the next potential evolution for our money system: credit clearing.

    The middle chapters of the book provide a detailed explanation of how credit clearing works and how it can, in his words, "empower people to monetize the value that they themselves create, to exchange their goods and services according to their own values, ideals, and objectives, and to reduce their dependence upon exploitative system of money and finance."

    The final third of the book is a practical guide for implementing credit clearing systems both at the local and regional levels. It provides a brief history of the credit exchange movement, highlighting the lessons that can be learned from earlier efforts and the challenges faced by modern exchanges.

    Ultimately, Greco provides the outlines for a new money system in which anyone who offers goods and services for sale becomes a qualified currency issuer, in which credit is given interest free on the basis of an issuer's sales and ties to the local community, and in which the credit commons have been reclaimed and freed for all.

    While some critics of the current money system seem to advocate a return to commodity money, Greco very clearly identifies this as a move in the wrong direction. Instead, he calls for a move to the next stage in the evolution of money to mutual credit clearing. "To be clear," he says, "credit money has been badly abused. The banking monopoly has perverted it into usury-debt-money. The answer is not to discard credit money, but to perfect it through the establishment of mutual credit clearing networks and independent private and community currencies." This book shows us how.
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  • Sharcdn
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very Interesting Concept
    Reviewed in Canada on April 5, 2014
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    Thomas Greco is a renowned professor and has written previous books on the topic of a new currency. According to Greco and several other people digital money is the future. Banks will no longer be needed. The new digital economy will be fuelled by an innovative online marketplace and an integrated accounting system where members can engage in a wide variety of trade-related scenarios.

    Using cloud-based credit and debit management systems for trading goods and services, raising cash to fund new projects, facilitating group purchases, rewarding consumers, and many other applications that require tracking virtual resources among various trading partners, etc. will take the place of banks.

    Social Media combined with many other web-based revolutions are about to sweep the planet and will change our world in many profound ways, including fundamentally transforming the way business is conducted around the globe.

    The global financial system and world’s economies are about to undergo a radical and unprecedented series of changes. What peer to peer (p2p) file sharing has recently done to the recording industry, new (p2p) digital currencies will soon do to the banking industry; Crowdsourcing will do to the traditional world of business; and Crowdfunding will do to the current world of investing.

    There will be a new value-based economic system using a powerful new digital currency management system combined with a sophisticated online trading infrastructure,

    All of the above are very interesting comments and put forth in a very understandable way by Greco. Let's see if they come to fruition!
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  • Muse
    5.0 out of 5 stars Writing a review again ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 13, 2018
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    I wrote an excellent review of this book (which I bought on Amazon) in 2014, confirming what other reviewers have assessed, but Amazon deleted it a year or so later, as they have done with many of my other reviews of the hundreds of books I bought through Amazon.

    Is Amazon deleting reviews on "sell-by dates", without regard to pertinence?
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  • Mike3
    5.0 out of 5 stars Read it !
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2014
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    Prof Greco is the source of valuable information
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