brief biographical material on Richard Kotlarz

Richard Kotlarz has worked for over 20 years as a technician in the fields of engineering consulting, industrial testing and product design. He has combined this with a wide range of other life experience, including military service in Vietnam, work in human services, political activism, and the building of a deep-in-the-woods earth-sheltered homestead. His background, however, does not include significant professional experience or academic credentials in the area of economics. He has, rather, come to his interest and learning in the subject as a common citizen with a personal mission to understand and resolve the larger issues in the world around him. This has produced a unique approach to money and economics which is rooted in intuition and common sense. It challenges the assumptions of both orthodox and “alternative” discourse from the outset. He is currently involved in efforts to distill the fruits of that quest in a number of initiatives, among them the making of a box-office movie that will lay bare the emperor-has-no-clothes heart of the perverse monetary principle which is consuming the earth and the life in it. More and more the world is gripped with fear about money, but the question can be turned over to reveal a liberating new vision on the other side.

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“Humankind has always had an economic life since the beginning of the social order. Indeed, it might be said that its advent is the very phenomenon that heralded the emergence of social man. Yet, ironically, we are just now entering the first time in the evolution of human consciousness when the topic could be meaningfully talked about, or even comprehended. There is a mystery here, and it is the purpose of this discourse to delve into that mystery. What is more, it is upon our ability to penetrate its depths and divine its implications that the fate of civilization rests.”

From introduction of Economic Life and the Usury Error, by Richard Kotlarz