The Future of Money Conference 2020
The advent of the financial crises caused economists, politicians and laypeople to question the legitimacy of a debt-based money system and highlighted the need to reassess our beliefs about the nature of money and the workings of the banking sector. Today, with a new financial crises on the horizon, the need to understand and rethink money and banking seems more important than ever. In line with an increasing number of politicians and economists, we acknowledge the urgency of understanding the deficiencies of the current money system and the need to examine monetary reforms and alternative forms of money as means to create a more stable and sustainable future. On this basis, IMMR and Gode Penge will gather international experts to assess and discuss advantages and disadvantages of monetary reforms and new forms of money, with the further aim of examining how a sustainable money system could be designed in today’s digitized and globalized world
With the involvement of esteemed economists and financial experts, the The Future of Money Conference 2020 intends to shed light on the inherent shortcomings of the current monetary system and examine how monetary reforms and new forms of money can support a more stable and just economy. Pros and cons of sovereign and private currencies will be presented and it will be discussed whether the right to create money should be restricted to a public institution or whether money creation should be privatized. In this context, the conference will further assess the potential of new emerging digital money, namely Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) and cryptocurrencies.
