Ole Bjerg (Denmark)

Ole Bjerg is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School. His works include Poker: The Parody of Capitalism(2011); Making Money: The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism (2014); and Parallax of Growth: The Philosophy of Ecology and Economy(2016). Making Money was praised by the philosopher Slavoj Žižek, whose ideas Bjerg applied. His research interests circle around a diagnosis of contemporary capitalism, including the ontological question “ How is money?” He is one of the few addressing money creation in a TED Talk.Dr. Bjerg also focused on how economic growth and nature are at loggerheads. Given the COP26 at Glasgow this November it might be good to know that he was deeply involved in a research project “Monetary Reform for the Post-Growth Economy”, which abstract stated: “ Our aim is to provide academic research to document the relations between the current drive towards perpetual, unsustainable growth in our economy and the creation of money as commercial bank credit based on debt. In our research, we also want to demonstrate the potential economic effects of a monetary reform along the lines of Sovereign Money Creation. Our hypothesis is that such reform may remove the need for perpetual growth and thus pave the way for a different and more sustainable organization of the economy.”

His presentation title is “Money and Sovereignty, or: Why I changed my mind on Central Bank Digital Currencies.”