Quote of the day
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Bernard Lietaer
Born: 1942
Died: February 4, 2019 (aged 77)
Bio: Bernard Lietaer was a civil engineer, economist, author and professor. He studies monetary systems and promotes the idea that communities can benefit from creating their own local or complementary currency, which circulate parallel with national currencies.
Known for:
- The Future of Money (2001)
- New Money for a New World (2011)








