[P2P-F] Senator Kucinich, and the Monetary Reform Bill.........

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Tadit,

would you have a list of your monetary book reviews?

Michel

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 PM, <ideasinc at ee.net> wrote:

> I am very familiar with the AMI's proposal. Relative to the MMT approach
> the AMI proposal is a half measure, and it relies upon the legislative
> process and celebrity politics. I suggested to Stephen Z. at the AMI's
> first annual conference the utility of a p2p like process to demonstrate
> what a sovereign currency would operate(hence the CRX as a learning
> process). He chose to structure local chapters as advocacy groups solely
> toward national level legislation for reform. The MMT folks believe that
> by the use of reserve accounting as used by the central banks and that
> Pres. R. Nixon took the US economy off of the gold standard in 1971 by
> executive order, federal level legislation is not required for monetary
> reform. I have labored to bring the two perspectives together, and Stephen
> seems to regard the MMT people as an opposition to his agenda. I have done
> several reviews of pop-level books on monetary economics for the AMI and
> have been invited to speak several times by Stephen Z. and continue to
> have conversations with him during the year. I believe that the Kucinich
> legislation is a worthy effort and doomed at the gate due to massive
> economic illiteracy, particularly at the legislative level. My approach is
> more on the lines of if the people will lead, the politicians will follow.
>
> as we go, Tadit
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:14:38 -0400, robert searle <dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >  The following maybe of interest from the American Monetary Institute
> > headed by Stephen Zarlenga. The present page of the link reveals that
> > Senator Kucinich has been at it again to try, and have Congress take the
> > ideas of AMI seriously. A copy of the Bill can be found onsite...
> >  http://www.monetary.org/
> >   RS>
>
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