Reviews
“Jordan Bruce MacLeod sees money as a reflection of the state of awareness of a society, its understanding of the world and its values, belief-systems and culture. This kind of deep analysis has been missing from the many books and learned papers seeking to re-design money and the often-perverse effects of current money systems. This vital analysis helps us to examine how all humans have designed and used money throughout history. Using psychological and systems analyses from many sources, MacLeod shows how money is a reflection of human states of consciousness—from the purely materialistic to the transcendent.”
—Hazel Henderson
Author, Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy
“This couldn’t be more timely. It is a brilliant look at a new approach to thinking about currency from a visionary thinker who has understood well the significance of the negative interest rate. When people realize the evolving impact of consciousness and cultural values on money, it will truly transform the world. Jordan’s book is the perfect place to start.”
—James Bernard Quilligan
Adviser to HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal
”Jordan MacLeod has done an excellent job seeking to understand what New Currency might mean in this new age following the collapse of the high finance system. This book will stimulate thought and, hopefully, open up new vistas for further exploration into the new role of currency in the future. I am pleased to read that he has incorporated Spiral Dynamics into his analysis.”
—Don Edward Beck, PhD
Co-Author, Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change
“Just as the world is teetering on the brink of financial free-fall, Jordan MacLeod steps forward with a proposal for a new currency. Jordan’s exploration of currency from an integral perspective reveals the old thinking that has brought the financial world to a win/lose endgame whose rules sets no longer match the life conditions under which the game is played. Jordan operates from the premise that financial globalization has made the world a deeply interconnected system where sustainability is not just an environmental nicety but a full system necessity requiring financial technology equal to the scale of complexity, that people systems and production systems have evolved to.
“New Currency: How Money Changes the World As We Know It brings fresh, integrally informed thinking to a subject many have come to dread and/or ignore. MacLeod is offering a whole new paradigm that will bring light into the dark corners (aka transparency and accountability) of how we exchange values on our precious planet and evolve an organic currency equal to the task.”
—Marilyn Hamilton PhD CGA
Author of Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive
“In times of epoch change when the cultural seas are in turmoil, nothing is so valuable as a clear voice calling out the soundings of where we are. If that voice can further suggest where we need to go, it is a blessing. In New Currency: How Money Changes the World as We Know It, Jordan MacLeod has provided both with remarkable insight, not only into the world of finance, but also into the depth and potential of the human spirit.”
—Bernice H. Hill, PhD
Jungian Analyst
Author of Money and the Spiritual Warrior
“We currently live in a world with profound de facto taboos; a world in which “national sovereignty” lies supreme; a world in which countless arguments end up facing the “in the long run we are all dead” responses. These taboos have taken humanity, again and again, to a path of destruction of the greater good, for the sake of the here and now. But how did we get here? What are the root causes of our collective behavior (as opposed to the superficial, news-of-the-week explanation)? Finally, is this the only path for humanity? In New Currency, economist Jordan MacLeod courageously sets out in search of a new, credible alternative path. This intriguing work is a true breath of fresh air; a piece of philosophy, disguised as a piece of economics, disguised as a personal journey. I fully recommend readers to follow in Mr. MacLeod’s footsteps, for the journey is nothing short of groundbreaking.”
—Alexandre Linhares, PhD
Professor of Management Science,
The Brazilian School of Business and Public Administration
“MacLeod makes apparent why Joseph Beuys placed a central importance on money and social sculpture to transform the world. There is a pervasive urgency for artists to build positive, creative visions for the future that go far beyond some of the more naive, relativistic positions in the art world that merely lead to attacks on the status quo. This book can help.”
—Gerald Ferguson
Artist
“New Currency comes as a very timely wake-up call when the world now faces financial mayhem for reasons that most people have difficulty comprehending. The limitations of traditional monetary theories have been harshly revealed by the recent erosion of trust in the financial sector, making the essential ideas presented in New Currency a life-line to ensure fair, sustainable and solid growth. New Currency is a rare piece of original thinking that has the potential to become a classic for many future generations. I highly and equally recommend it to policy makers and lay readers looking to see how our world could be in the future. Most refreshing!”
—Ghanem Nuseibeh
Co-founder and Director, Cornerstone Global Associates
Middle East Analyst
As each of our institutions begins to collapse under the weight of materialistic values, a new generation of creative minds emerges offering us alternatives that serve the common good. MacLeod is one of the promising pioneers of a new planetary civilization that takes an in-depth look at the interdependence of our global challenges and offers us innovative ideas for a monetary system that works for all.
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May 6, 2009 5:42 pm
