Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is part of a series of interviews that will accompany a book I'm writing, that will be published by Chelsea Green - an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that book is describing, built around a mutual credit core.
Today I’m talking with Brett Scott, author of ‘A Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance’ and specialist in the money system. Part 1 of this interview is here - youtube.com/watch?v=S1LzCRbxEW4
Transcript of this interview, with more links: lowimpact.org/the-future-of-money-part-2-with-brett-scott
Introduction to mutual credit: lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/mutual-credit
More on the book: lowimpact.org/book-deal-new-decentralised-economy-mutual-credit-core
Mutual Credit Services: https://mutualcredit.services/ Credit Commons: creditcommons.net
Chelsea Green: chelseagreen.com
Brett’s website, Altered States of Monetary Consciousness: https://alteredstatesof.money/
Brett’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCi3uKtaOfW8MV7mIz6gFXUw
Highlights
1. The more profound the change you want to make, the smaller the scale you have to operate on, because you’re going against the grain.
2. The salvation narrative right now, as far as I can detect (and I’m stuck between the tech community and the financial reform community, so I might getting a biased story), is around things like mutual credit for example – based on strong, sound monetary principles, but historically they’ve stagnated and been hard to start.
3. This is where the imagination is currently drifting – could there be some tech, hybrid thing that emerges, to start to enable people to build out mutual credit in a way that wasn’t previously easy to do. That’s where some of the hope lies.
4. I guess the mutual credit movement should be trying – and is trying - to slowly embed itself and get people more used to it, to provide a counter-power to a much larger system.
This is part of a series of interviews that will accompany a book I'm writing, that will be published by Chelsea Green - an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that book is describing, built around a mutual credit core.
Today I’m talking with Brett Scott, author of ‘A Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance’ and specialist in the money system. Part 1 of this interview is here - youtube.com/watch?v=S1LzCRbxEW4
Transcript of this interview, with more links: lowimpact.org/the-future-of-money-part-2-with-brett-scott
Introduction to mutual credit: lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/mutual-credit
More on the book: lowimpact.org/book-deal-new-decentralised-economy-mutual-credit-core
Mutual Credit Services: https://mutualcredit.services/ Credit Commons: creditcommons.net
Chelsea Green: chelseagreen.com
Brett’s website, Altered States of Monetary Consciousness: https://alteredstatesof.money/
Brett’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCi3uKtaOfW8MV7mIz6gFXUw
Highlights
1. The more profound the change you want to make, the smaller the scale you have to operate on, because you’re going against the grain.
2. The salvation narrative right now, as far as I can detect (and I’m stuck between the tech community and the financial reform community, so I might getting a biased story), is around things like mutual credit for example – based on strong, sound monetary principles, but historically they’ve stagnated and been hard to start.
3. This is where the imagination is currently drifting – could there be some tech, hybrid thing that emerges, to start to enable people to build out mutual credit in a way that wasn’t previously easy to do. That’s where some of the hope lies.
4. I guess the mutual credit movement should be trying – and is trying - to slowly embed itself and get people more used to it, to provide a counter-power to a much larger system.
