Bernard Lietaer is the author of numerous books and articles in English and in other languages.

Books

• New Money for a New World, Quiterra Press, Co-authored with Stephen Belgin. NEW!

• Creating Wealth: Growing local economies with local currencies, Co-authored with Gwendolyn Hallsmith.

• Of Human Wealth: Beyond Greed and Scarcity (forthcoming).  Co-authored with Stephen Belgin.

• A Report to the Club of Rome: Money and Sustainability: the Missing Link (forthcoming).  Co-authored with Stefan Brunnhuber.

• Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work and a Wiser World (London: Random House, January 2001).  The book was translated in seventeen other languages.

• Europe + Latin America + the Multinationals : A Positive Sum Game for the Exchange of Raw Materials and Technology in the 1980s. London: Saxon House ; New York: Praeger, 1979.

• Short-term Planning Models, published in Studies in Management Science and Systems Vol. 2.  Amsterdam, Oxford, New York: North Holland Publishing Co. , 1975.

• Financial Management of Foreign Exchange. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1970.

Articles

A directory of the articles listed below, with their respective abstracts is available here.

• Solving the crisis in capitalism, by Elisabet Sahtouris, 23 January 2012.

• “Is Our Monetary Structure a Systemic Cause for Financial Instability?  Evidence and Remedies from Nature,” by Bernard Lietaer, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Sally J. Goerner and Nadia McLaren. Journal of Futures Studies, Special Issue on the Financial Crisis, April 2010

• “Quantifying Economic Sustainability: Implications for Free-Enterprise Theory, Policy, and Practice,” co-authored with Sally J. Goerner and Robert E. Ulanowicz, in Ecological Economics, Vol. 69, n. 1, December 15, 2009

• “Quantifying Sustainability: Resilience, Efficiency and the Return of Information Theory.”  Co-authored with Robert E. Ulanowicz, Sally J. Goerner and Rocio Gomez, in Ecological Economics, Vol. 6, Issue 1, March 2009

• “Options for Managing a Systemic Banking Crisis,” by Bernard Lietaer, Robert Ulanowicz and Sally Goerner.  Sapiens-Revues, Volume 2, number 1, March 2009

 

• “A Revolutionary Idea” in Resurgence Magazine (March-April 2009, no 253).   An article about how to stabilize the economic sector by introducing alternative forms of currency; the article is only available to subscribers.

• “Commercial Credit Circuit (C3): A Financial Innovation to Structurally Address Unemployment,” a white paper written in collaboration with STRO, 2008.

 

• “Natural Savings: A New Microsavings Product for Inflationary Environments. How to Save Forests with Savings for and by the Poor?” co-authored with Marek Hudon (Salvay Business School, Brussels).  Published in Savings and Development, Fall 2006

• “A Proposal for a Brazilian Education Complementary Currency,” International Journal for Complementary Currency Research, Vol. 10, 2006, p. 18-23.

• “Complementary Currency Innovation: Self-guarantee in peer-to-peer currencies.”  Bernard Lietaer and Mitra Ardron, International Journal of Community Currency Research, Vol. 10, 2006, p. 1-7.

• “An Integral View on Money and Financial Crashes.”  White paper, October 2005.

• The Terra TRC White Paper, 2004

• “Complementary Currencies in Japan: History, Originality and Relevance,“International Journal for Community Currency Research Vol 8, 2004

• “Sustaining Cultural Vitality in a Globalizing World: The Balinese Example.“  Bernard Lietaer and Stephen DeMeulenaere.   International Journal for Social Economics, September 2003.

• “A World in Balance,” by Bernard Lietaer. Published in Reflections, the journal of the Society for Organizational Learning (SOL),  Summer 2003 -  Special issue on “The feminine approach to leadership.”

• “Money and Sustainability: the Missing Link,” Resurgence Magazine, May 2001.

• “Prepare Your Company for Inflation,” Harvard Business Review, September-October, 1970.

• “Managing Risks in Foreign Exchange,” Harvard Business Review, March-April 1970.