While obviously not strictly a Single Global Currency Conference, the 1944 Bretton Woods Monetary Conference did consider the proposal of John Maynard Keynes for a single global currency, to be called the "bancor". The proposal was not adopted. This famous conference addressed the major issue which will be solved by the single global currency: foreign exchange rates for multiple currencies.
2004
The 2004 Conference was held on Friday, July 9 at the Mt. Washington Hotel. See Agenda and Titles and Summaries of Presentations and Press Release.
Below are the presentations which are available:
John Edmunds and John Marthinsen, "Financial Wealth Creation via Currency Unification"
Fariborz Moshirian, "Globalisation and the Role of a Single Global Currency"
H.Christopher Budd, "A Single Global Currency - a political or an economic money?"
Masudul Choudhury, "Harmonizing Money and Real Economy by a Universal Standard" (not presented personally)
The presenters and attendees were all very aware of the significance of holding the conference in the same rooms as were negotiated the 1944 Bretton Woods agreements, 60 years previous.
We were well aware that this was the first such Single Global currency conference and there would never again be another such "First Conference." It was intimidating, too, given our small numbers.
Reporter Laura Colquhoun from the Manchester Union Leader wrote "With Euro as a Model, Group pushes Single Global Currency".
Attendee and Principal at www.goldmoney.com,
James Turk, engaged several speakers in discussion, with
his concerns about the abuse of money by previous governments.
See his article in his Newsletter "Free Market - Gold
& Money Report", entitled, "A
Single Global Currency"
2005
The 2005 2d Annual Single Global Currency Conference was held on Thursday/Friday, July 14/15, 2005 at the Mt. Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods.
The Agenda featured an informal discussion on Thursday afternoon (See Easel Notes) and then formal presentations on Friday.
Of the Friday Presentations, the following are available:
"Wealth Creation via Currency Unification & Mama Mia! Here We Go Again!" by John Marthinsen and John Edmunds.
"Global Resource Bank Charter" by John Pozzi
"Exchange Rate Regimes for the 21st Century: Asia, Europe and the Americas" by James W. Dean
Photos by Celali Yilmaz, Turkey:
- Ratnam Alagiah and morrison bonpasse at 1944
Conference Sign at Bretton Woods.
- John Marthinsen presentation with Harry Dexter White and
- Attendees at end of conference.
2006
The 2006 3rd Annual Single Global Currency Conference was held on Thursday/Friday, July 20/21, 2006 at the Mt. Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods.
The Agenda featured an informal discussion on Thursday afternoon and then formal presentations on Friday.
Of the Friday presentations, the following are available here:
"Single global currency and uncertainties in the convergence towards economic stability" by Lucio Valerio Spagnolo, Jean Monnet European Chair European Integration Economics, University of Salerno, Italy. (Lucio was unable to attend, but the abstract of his paper is presented here as part of the proceedings.)
"Determining The Exchange Value Of An African Currency Unit" by Ntamark Eric of the University of Buea, Cameroon. (Ntamark was unable to attend, but his paper is presented here as part of the proceedings.)
2007
The 2007 4th Annual Single Global Currency Conference was held on Thursday/Friday, July 19-20, 2006 at the Mt. Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods.
The Agenda featured an informal discussion on Thursday afternoon and then formal presentations on Friday.
Of the Friday presentations, the following are available here:
