AMI 2025 Conference: Avarice, Power, and the Future of Money

September 19–28, 2025 |  Online via Zoom

Welcome to the 21st Annual AMI Conference, a global gathering where economists, legal scholars, journalists, activists, and engaged citizens come together to ask one urgent question:

Can we design a money system that serves people and planet, instead of private interests?

For seven days across two weekends, the conference will explore the hidden architecture of money and its impact on democracy, inequality, and ecological survival. Expect bold analyses, fresh debates, and practical solutions.

Highlights include:

  • Kaoru Yamaguchi on system modeling that shows how public money can end debt, unemployment, and inflation.
  • Mehrsa Baradaran on how systemic discrimination and neoliberalism transformed finance into an engine of inequality.
  • Morgan Ricks on rethinking the very design of the monetary system.
  • Michael Hudson on ancient debt systems in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece—and their lessons for today.
  • David Korten on why transforming money creation is essential to an ecological civilization.
  • Gretchen Morgenson on the hidden rise of private equity and its damage to communities.
  • Les Leopold on Wall Street’s deliberate war on workers through mass layoffs.

Other sessions feature leading thinkers like Robert Hockett, Richard Robbins, Adrian Kuzminski, Geoff Crocker, David Ciepley, Nick Egnatz, and Mario Martinez, each offering insights on reclaiming money as a tool of democracy.

The AMI 2025 Conference Reading Guide of the relevant studies by presenters is here.

This is not just an academic conversation. It’s about reimagining how finance shapes everyday life—from jobs and wages to climate policy and community survival.

 Join us online, September 19–28, 2025.
Don’t miss this rare chance to connect with world-leading experts and activists working to reclaim money for the public good.

Register here →