Govert Schuller

Govert Schuller is a Dutch-American author who writes about Jiddu Krishnamurti, Theosophy and philosophy. He studied philosophy in the Netherlands and studied under the Heidegger scholar Theodore Kisiel at Northern Illinois University. He has a masters degree from the University of Wales on the topic of narrative identity theory and is now a research scholar at North Eastern Hills University, Shillong, India. For 23 years he has been maintaining Alpheus.org, a website looking at spirituality, philosophy and politics from a critical, skeptical, and evolutionary point of view. He became interested in monetary reform after meeting Stephen Zarlenga in 2008. After attending the 2014 conference of the American Monetary Institute he participated in many of its activities promoting monetary reform. Govert is a founding member of the Alliance For Just Money and was one of the editors of its 2020 publication Democratizar el Dinero: Una Introducción a la Reforma del Dinero Soberano, a compilation of monetary reform articles in Spanish. In 2021 he acted as AFJM's managing director for six months during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For a while he has been cricitally reflecting on Modern Monetary Theory and some of his findings are here on the AFJM web site. The topic of his presentation is the MMT-like nature of recent articles by long-time monetary reformer Josh Ryan-Collins. The title is "Did Dr. Josh Ryan-Collins Go MMT?" (Full Text of Paper)