17th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference, 2021
Conference video playlist
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
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