Thomas H. Greco

Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is a community and monetary economist, writer, educator, networker, and consultant, who, for more than three decades, has been working at the leading edge of transformational restructuring. A former college professor, he is currently Director of the non-profit Community Information Resource Center, a networking hub that provides consulting services, information access, and administrative support for efforts in community improvement, social justice, and sustainability. His specialty is the creation of local liquidity based on local productivity.

He is regarded as one of the leading experts in monetary theory and history, credit clearing systems, complementary currencies, and community economic development. He has written for a wide range of journals including, The Whole Earth Review, World Business Academy Perspectives, At Work, Earth Island Journal, The Catholic Worker, The Permaculture Activist, Permaculture Drylands Journal, Green Revolution, Fourth World Review, and other publications.

He has authored four books:

His latest book, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (Chelsea Green, 2009), is both descriptive of the essence of money and its historical evolution, and prescriptive of actions that can be taken by communities, business, and governments to enhance local self-reliance and economic stability through liberation of the exchange process. His previous books on complementary currencies and exchange systems are, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender (Chelsea Green, 2001) and New Money for Healthy Communities (1994), which describe voluntary alternatives to conventional money that empower communities and reward people fairly. His first book, Money and Debt: A Solution to the Global Crisis (1990) explains how conventional money malfunctions and how an ideal money would be structured, and proposes a plan for solving the global debt crisis and making the transition to an interest-free, harmonious economic and financial world order.

He has traveled widely in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, lecturing, networking, and teaching. He has been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences including the 2009 and 2006 annual conventions of the International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA, the trade association for the commercial "barter" industry), the Economics of Peace Conference in California in 2009, the Gold Dinar Conference in Malaysia in 2007, and the conference on Knowledge, Business and Consciousness held at the international community of Auroville, India in 2006. During his most recent tour of Europe and the UK in October 2012 he delivered 10 lectures and conducted 4 workshops in three different countries, and consulted with organizers of various complementary currency and exchange projects, including the Volos TEM in Greece and the Brixton Pound in the UK.

He maintains an active correspondence and major web presence through his websites http://Beyondmoney.net and reinventingmoney.com. Mr. Greco holds an MBA (Business Administration) from the University of Rochester and a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Villanova University. He spent a year in residence doing doctoral study in Management, and Instructional Technology at Syracuse University. His work experience includes 5 years as an aerospace engineer and 14 years in academia where he held a tenured faculty position. His expertise includes monetary theory, complementary currency and exchange system design, computer applications, statistical analysis and survey research.