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Democratizing Monetary Issue: Tools for Resilience

Part of the 2023 series Schumacher Conversations: Envisioning the Next 50 Years


September 21, 2023

As the 50th anniversary of the book Small is Beautiful, 2023 is our opportunity to advance solutions to today’s social, economic, and environmental challenges that build on Schumacher’s original vision. To meet this calling, the Schumacher Center is convening a monthly series featuring New Economic thinkers, builders and activists from a range of fields. “Schumacher Conversations: Envisioning the Next 50 Years” brings together change-makers whose work today is actively shaping a ‘small is beautiful’ future, organized around 12 key themes and fields of activism.

September’s theme is “Democratizing Monetary Issue: Tools for Resilience.” This online Conversation takes place Thursday, September 21 at 2PM Eeastern Time (8PM CEDT).

Featuring:
– Christine Desan, Harvard Law Professor and author of Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism.
– Susana Martín Belmonte, independent economist and project leader on the REC citizen currency in Barcelona.
– Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics, designer of the Sarafu Network platform in Kenya.
– Moderated by Eric Harris Braun, Co-Founder of Holochain, Advisor to BerkShares local currency.

Register here.

 

Our list of allied organizations for the September theme can be viewed here.

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Event Panelists

Susana Martín Belmonte

Susana Martín Belmonte is an independent economist focused on the democratic and environmental aspects of the monetary and financial system, and on the potential of the digitization of money for the transition to a fair and low-carbon economy. She has led several monetary and social innovation projects including the REC citizen currency in partnership with … Continued

Christine Desan

Christine Desan is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. She teaches about the political economy of capitalism, the constitutional law of money, the international monetary system, constitutional history, and legal theory. Christine’s research explores money as a legal and political project, one that configures the market it sets out to … Continued

Will Ruddick

Will Ruddick is a development economist focusing on traditional practices and currency innovation, and Founder of Grassroots Economics Foundation. After completing graduate school researching high energy physics as a collaboration member at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, he found his analysis skills and passion drawn to alternative economics and development. Since 2008 Will has lived … Continued

Eric Harris-Braun

Eric Harris-Braun designs and builds software infrastructure for the new economy. He is a co-founder of the MetaCurrency project, which is creating a platform for communities of all scales to design and deploy their own currencies, and Holochain, which will host a full array of asset-backed, value-stable currencies, setting a new class of cryptocurrencies that will … Continued