17th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference, 2021

Friday, 5th of November 2021

10:00 AM CDT

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Dear Friends,

We proudly announce our 17th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference, bringing together some of the world’s leading experts on monetary history and theory together with some of the world’s most serious advocates of real and achievable economic and monetary reforms.

Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the conference will be held again on the Zoom platform, which has many advantages over an in-person conference.

To accommodate international scheduling we will have two speakers on Friday starting at 4 pm CT-US followed by a social hour beginning around 8 pm CT-US.

The conference is split up into five sessions and times are subject to change.

Below you will find the tentative, now almost finalized, schedule and the speakers so far booked, including their bios.

For people new to this subject matter, or just to get an overview of the conference, we have composed a document titled “Advanced Study Notes.“

Thanks and warmest regards, hoping to see you on Zoom,

The 2021 AMI Conference Team
Steven Walsh
Govert Schuller

Conference Schedule

All times Chicago, Central Daylight Time (CDT / UTC -5) on Friday and Saturday, and Central Standard Time (CST / UTC -6) on Sunday (Time Zone Info)

IMPORTANT NOTICE: In this weekend the US changes from Daylight Time (DT) to Standard Time (ST). On Sunday 2 am CDT exactly the clock goes back one hour to 1 am, adding one hour to the night.

Full Schedule

Friday November 5

Time	Friday Speakers	Title or Topic
4:00 pm	Walsh / Schuller / Switzer	Opening Remarks & MR Song
4:15 pm	Laurence Kotlikoff	Key Note Address: Fixing the Financial System for Good
5:45 pm	Dinner & Social
6:45 pm	John Howell	My Work with the League of Women Voters on Monetary Reform
7:30 pm	Ahamed Kameel Meera	Lecture: Lessons Learned from Post-Bretton Woods Global Fiat Money System and the Warranted Monetary Reforms
9:00 pm	Session finished

Saturday November 6

Time	Saturday Speakers	Title or Topic
8:30 am	Steve Keen	A Parallel Currency Using Universal Carbon Credits as a Way of Addressing Climate Change
9:15 am	Laurence Kotlikoff	Key Note Address: Fixing the Financial System for Good
9:45 am	Joseph Huber	The tidal change in the composition of the money supply from bankmoney to central-bank digital currency and stablecoins
10:15 am	Ole Bjerg	Money and Sovereignty, or: Why I changed my mind on Central Bank Digital Currencies
10:45 am	Fernández Ordóñez	CBDC and the Public Interest
11:15 am	Break 1
11:30 am	Mark Cassell	The Political Economy of German Savings Banks
12:00 pm	Katharina Serafimova	Topic: Local Initiatives
12:30 pm	Arie Ben-David	Topic: Local Initiatives
1:00 pm	Lunch	Break-out session for Spanish speaking community — Interview with Dr. Fernández Ordóñez and report from Democratizar El Dinero
2:00 pm	Sergio Rossi	Money and Banking: A Structural Reform Proposal [Video]
2:30 pm	Jeffrey Sklansky	The Money Question in American History
3:00 pm	Nic Tideman	Commodity versus Fiat Money
3:30 pm	Ronnie Phillips	Safe and Stable Banking in US History
4:00 pm	Break 2
4:15 pm	Mary Sanderson	Reporting on Spanish speaking network
4:45 pm	Richard Robbins	Once in a Lifetime Opportunity: COVID-19 and the Economy
5:15 pm	Tim Di Muzio	MMT, The Pandemic and Fiscal Fright
5:45 pm	Happy Hour	Song by Switzer
7:30+ pm	Session Finished

Sunday November 7

Time	Sunday Speakers	Title or Topic
9:00 am	Walsh / Schuller	Opening
9:15 am	Lillian Held-Khawam	How money enabled the globalization of the planet
9:45 am	John Titus	Did BlackRock Originate the Federal Reserve’s Unprecedented Pandemic Response Six Months beforehand?
10:30 am	Pejvak Kokobian	Co-colonialism: How International Capitalism is Creating a Proxy Colonizer – Near Colonizer and Far Colonizer
11:00 am	Frans Verhagen	The Tierra Monetary Paradigm: Its Architecture, Rationale and Strategy
11:30 am	Break 1
11:45 am	Dominico D’Amico	CBDC as Mean of Power: US Dollar and its Next World Standard Radical Monetary Reform: A Possible Solution?
12:15 pm	Jussi Ora	Sweden’s search for a new strategy and to truly become a change maker
12:45 pm	Mark Young	International Consequences and Obstacles to Sovereign Monetary Reform
1:15 pm	Lunch
2:15 pm	Howard Switzer	Song
2:20 pm	Nick Egnatz	On his upcoming book People, Planet and the Power of Money: Reclaiming the Ancient Lost Power, to Heal Our Planet and Ourselves
2:30 pm	Mark Pash	Reduction of the Management vs Labor Conflicts: Increasing the Chances for the Elimination of Poverty
3:00 pm	Parity Movie	Prosperity: The Simple Way
3:30 pm	Geraldine Perry	Monetary Reform and Farm Parity: The Path to a Pareconomy
4:15 pm	Break 2
4:30 pm	Virginia Hammon	Just Money and Parity: A New Look at an Old Idea
5:15 pm	Randy Cook / Walsh	Coming Full Circle: Parity and Monetary Reform
5:45 pm	Greg Coleridge	Building Consensus
6:15 pm	Happy Hour	Song by Switzer
7:00+ pm	Session Finished

Conference Materials

AMI: AMI Press Release regarding the Statement to the Participants of the UN Climate Conference’s COP26 Regarding the Monetary Dimension of Climate Change from the Attendees of the 17th Monetary Reform Conference by the American Monetary Institute.

If you like to add your name (including institutional affiliation and/or title), email Steven Walsh or Govert Schuller.

Tim Di Muzio: Abstract of Paper
Dominico D’Amico: Money is Common Good (Manifesto) / The Political Economy of Hyper-Modernity (Paper; link forthcoming)
Lilian Held-Khawam: Overview of Presentation
John Howell / AFJM: AFJM American Monetary Reform Act of 2021
Joseph Huber: Text of paper
Ronnie Phillips: Recommended article
Frans Verhagen: Abstract of Presentation / Petition to the UN COP26
Mark Young: Text of Paper

Conference Speakers

So far we have booked, in alphabetical order (indicating their country of origin / country of residence), and with added bios:

Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera

Prof. Dato’ Dr. Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera is currently the Managing Director of the Z Consulting Group. He was a Professor in the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia and the Dean of the Institute of Islamic Banking & Finance, International Islamic University Malaysia. He holds a PhD....

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Arie Ben-David

Arie Ben-David is a serial Social and Business Entrepreneur that initiated and managed various international business enterprises. Arie is the founder and the chairman of the board of Shareitt, the Israeli Impact company that developed a Community Prosperity Kit that enables...

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Frans Verhagen

Frans Verhagen is a Dutch-American sustainability sociologist with a Ph.D. in the sociology of international development from Columbia University. In 2009 he founded the International Institute for Monetary Transformation and is now pursuing the development and implementation of the Tierra Solution, a decarbonization-based international monetary...

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Geraldine Perry

Geraldine Perry is the co-author of The Two Faces of Money and the sole author of Climate Change, Land Use and Monetary Policy: The New Trifecta, as well as numerous articles on the web. Geri's presentation is the result of a collaborative effort between members of the Alliance for Just Money, associates of the AMI, and current and past officers...

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Greg Colerige

Greg Coleridge is Outreach Director of Move to Amend, a national coalition working to amend the US Constitution to end corporate constitutional rights and political money in elections defined as First Amendment-protected free speech. He previously worked for more than three...

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Howard Switzer

Howard Switzer is a Tennessee architect working in eco-friendly building methods and builds energy efficient, healthy, homes and has presented at the International Materials Research Congress. He is a founding member and was co-chair of the Green Party of Tennessee 2002-2003, serving many terms on the Green Party’s National Committee as a...

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Jeffrey Sklansky

Jeffrey Sklansky specializes in the intellectual and social history of capitalism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley and receiving his PhD in History from Columbia University, he...

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John Howell

John Howell (Ph.D., UCLA, 1968) is a retired physiologist from Ohio University, where he was the recipient of numerous awards for research and for teaching and served as director of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Musculoskeletal Research. He currently serves as a teaching assistant in the Ohio University Department of Classics and World...

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John Titus

John Titus produces videos and films about financial and monetary events that undercut the rule of law. Titus worked as an electrical engineer in the space industry before law school. In 1994 he began his legal career at Roper & Quigg, a patent litigation boutique that insisted on technical precision in advocating cases built on storytelling...

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Joseph Huber

Joseph Huber is Professor emeritus of economic and environmental sociology, Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He is the founder of the monetary reform organization Monetative e.V. Berlin and is the editor and main author of the web site

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Jussi Ora

Jussi Ora is a social entrepreneur and leader that excels in challenges, the bigger the better. He is aProsci certified change manager and experienced coach. He has been working as coach, change manager, CEO and consultant ranging from 1 person to business with millions of customers. In areas such as life coach, Telecom, IT, Financial Services and...

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Katharina Serafimova

Katharina Serafimova is a social entrepreneur who lives her dream to co-create projects to re-connect nature, money and community. As a speaker and moderator, she facilitates events and processes that enable the transitions towards a value- and needs-based paradigm....

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Laurence Kotlikoff

Laurence Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston University, president of Economic Security Planning, and a New York Times best-selling author. His columns, articles, and books cover personal finance, generational policy, climate policy, inequality, tax reform, Social Security, banking, robotization, growth, and much more. He is a...

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Lilian Held-Khawam

Lilian Held-Khawam has been business analyst and coach for international companies and strongly involved in organizational and management development. In 1989, she founded a company based in Lausanne (Switzerland) active in business strategy and management consulting. The slogan of the company is "The development of the Human within the...

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Mark Cassell

Mark Cassell is a professor of political science at Kent State University, where he teaches public policy and administration courses, European politics, comparative public policy, and urban politics. His scholarship is mainly concerned with understanding public sector transformations. Professor Cassell's scholarship includes a number of books,...

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Mark Pash

Mark Pash grew up and worked in two separate family businesses, one in manufacturing and the other in retail stores. He went on to receive two business degrees, Bachelors and Masters, from UCLA and USC respectively. Then he served in the US Army after which he received his Certified Financial Planning designation. Over the past 45 years Mark has...

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Mark Young

Mark Young has over 25 years of experience in the housing and community development field. He has worked in the non-profit sector for a community development corporation and for city and state governments as well as being a private business owner of Crossroads Development & Consulting Company, JMK Development, Home Care Realty, Urban...

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Mary Sanderson

Mary Sanderson has worked as a mother, Wisconsin farmer, explorer, postal worker, peace & justice advocate. Learning the backstory on the bankcredit money creation system inspires her to advocate for permanent public money to begin healing the messes we are in. Mary currently works with Women’s Int’l League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF)...

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Miguel Ángel Fernández Ordóñez

Fernández Ordóñez is a Spanish economist and former Governor of the Bank of Spain (2006–12). In 2018 he came out in favor of a radical reform of the banking and monetary system. He condensed his ideas in the book Adios a...

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Nick Egnatz

Nick Egnatz is a Vietnam vet, small businessman, and activist. His life as an activist began opposing the imminent invasion of Iraq in 2003. This opposition soon grew to include all U.S. wars, militarism, empire and the war on the poor and working-class facilitated by a monetary system designed to send everything straight to the top. The National...

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Nicolaus Tideman

Professor Nicolaus Tideman received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago (where he studied under Milton Friedman among others), taught at Harvard (1968-73) and served as Senior Staff Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (1970-71) before moving to Virginia Tech in 1973. He has been Professor of Economics...

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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);

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Patrizio Lainà

Patrizio Lainà is Working as a Chief Economist at the Finnish Confederation of Professionals (STTK)He previously worked as an Economist at the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) and the Bank of Finland. He is a co-founder and chair of the Finnish monetary reform organization Economic Democracy Finland (“

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Pejvak Kokabian

Pejvak is an economists and entrepreneur. He received his Master and doctorate degree from The Graduate Claremont University of California in economics. He also had received a PMP and post-master diploma in Advanced Management from the Schulich School of Business at the University of York, Master of Business Administration degree in technology...

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Professor Steve Keen

Professor Steve Keen is widely regarded as one of the world's most accurate analytical economists, voted in 1st place for the inagural Revere Award for Economics in 2010 by the (Real) World...

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Randy Cook (USA)

Randy Cook has operated a fruit farm in Charlotte, Michigan, since 1975. Over the last ten years production techniques have focused on eliminating synthetic fertilizers and pesticides while increasing freshness and nutritional quality. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree, with honor, and a provisional teaching certificate for high school...

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Richard Robins

Richard Robbins is Distinguished Teaching Professor at the Department of Anthropology at SUNY, Plattsburgh. His books include

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Ronnie Phillips

Since 2010 Ronnie Phillips is Professor Emeritus in Economics at Colorado State University, Fort Collins and is past president of the Association for Evolutionary Economics. Phillips also taught at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He has published widely on banking issues, entrepreneurship, and public policy in books, academic...

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Sergio Rossi

Sergio Rossi is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he holds the Chair of Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, and is Senior Research Associate at the International Economic Policy Institute at Laurentian...

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Tim Di Muzio (Canada / Australia)

Tim Di Muzio is an Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Economy at the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is also an Associate at the Centre for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex, UK, and he is the founding editor of Review of Capital as Power(RECASP)...

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Virginia Hammon

Virginia Hammon is a facilitator and educator dedicated to improving our money system. Money is by law and we must change the law to change the money. We’ve made several renditions of an Act of Congress. However we do not yet have a simple, clear, comprehensive version. Her presentation is a review of the questions and issues that remain to be...

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