Monnaies complémentaires & alternatives - Future of money. Divers à trier. Innovation monétaire, monnaies de l’innovation. Complementary currency. Complementary currency describes currencies that exists as a supplement to our conventional (national) money.
“A complementary currency (…) is an agreement to use something else than legal tender (i.e. national money) as a medium of exchange, with the purpose to link unmet needs with otherwise unused resources” (Lietaer & Hallsmith 2006: 2). Complementary currencies advocates thus don't claim a full Separation of money and state. Purposes[edit] Bernard Lietaer. Bernard Lietaer promotes the need for monetary diversity as a means of stability diversity and complementary currencies, as a means of stability, PopTech 2011 Bernard Lietaer (born in 1942 in Lauwe, Belgium) is 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. Bernard Lietaer, the author of The Future of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity and New Money for a New World, has been active in the realm of money systems for close to 40 years in a wide variety of functions.