Interest-Free Money -
A Book-List
The following is a collection that examines the history
and effects of charging interest on lent money. Id
be glad to receive suggested additions that explain, not
the ills of the present economic system, but which cover
specific discussions of usury and descriptions for its replacement.
Networking for The Campaign for Interest-Free
Money
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Margrit Kennedy 'Interest and Inflation-Free
Money
New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, USA, 1995
(USA ISBN 0-86571-319-7)
A good - almost unique book - explaining the effects of
interest on daily life and the way it stops civilised life
developing.
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James Buchan Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into
the Meaning of Money
Picador, London, 1997
ISBN 0-330-36931-8 (paperback)
A lyrical book, written by a novelist and journalist, that
examines the history of money and our relationship with
it. Widely available.
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Dorothy Rowe The Real Meaning of Money
Harper Collins, London, 1997
ISBN 0-025-5329-5 (Also now available in paperback)
An extensive examination of the interaction of individuals
and money, written by a well-known and widely-published
psychologist.
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Peter Selby Grace and Mortgage:
The Language of Faith and the Debt of the World
Darton, Longman and Todd, London, 1997
ISBN 0-232-521700 (Paperback)
Written by the Anglican Bishop of Worcester, this marks
an important step in the Established Churchs rediscovery
of "ancient wisdoms."
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Sir Harry Page In Restraint of Usury: The Lending
of Money at Interest
Chartered Institute for Public Finances and Accounts (CIPFA),
London, 1985. ISBN 0-85299-2858
Written by a former President of CIPFA and past Treasurer
of the City of Manchester, this small book tells what most
other historians leave out - the first legalisation of usury
by Henry VIII in 1545. Sadly now out of print, this points
out the disastrous effect that usury has on providing quality
public services and the resulting misery caused.
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Christopher Hill Reformation To Industrial Revolution
Pelican Economic History, Volume 2: 1530-1780
Penguin, London, 1969.
Although this misses Henrys Act of 1545, it is a first-rate
account of the struggles between Westminster and the City
of London: particularly valuable is Chapter 6 The
Financial Revolution.
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Bertrand Russell A History of Western Philosophy
Allen and Unwin, London, 1946
Passes the U-test - contains an excellent and
concise examination of usury (via the index.)
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Harman Economics of The Madhouse: Capitalism
and the Market Today
Bookmarks, London, 1995
ISBN 1-898876-03-7 (Paperback)
Good, short, readable account of Marx insights into
the way usury-driven economics (capitalism!) works - easily
recognisable to any who have been in business.)
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Gary Allen None Dare Call It Conspiracy
Concord Books, Seal Beach, California, 1971
(Also Britons Publishing Co, 1973)
Some-times hair-raising account of the relationships between
the banking communities across the globe: the material here
has been examined by G William Dommen Who Runs America
Now Touchstone Books.
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Peter Lang LETS Work: Rebuilding The Local
Economy
Grover Books, Bristol, England BS6 5QA
ISBN 1 899233 00 8
Fine account of locally-created interest-free money. Wonderful
quote from Alan Watts (Chapter 1: Money: what it is and
how it lets us down)
"The Absurdity of It: . . . To say that people cannot
exchange value with one another because there is no money
is like saying you cannot build a house because you have
no feet and inches."
(To which I might add, that paying interest on lent money
is as ludicrous as the builder paying the feet and inches
a wage, once the house is built!)
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Also Michael Rowbotham's 'The Grip of Death' and 'Goodbye
America' both published by Jon Carpenter, 1999 and 2000,
are good on Fractional Reserve Banking
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