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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