Harvey F. Barnard
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Dr. Harvey F. Barnard (September 22, 1941 - May 18, 2005) was an American systems specialist, author of an economic reform proposal he termed the National Economic Stabilization And Recovery Act (NESARA), and founder of the NESARA Institute.
Barnard was born and raised in northern Louisiana. He married a neighbor, Jean Thompson, and soon moved with his family to Baton Rouge. The family also lived in several other states as Barnard worked on various major industrial projects before returning home to Baton Rouge. During most of his adult life Barnard worked as an employee and corporate officer serving heavy industry in technical and engineering fields as a systems troubleshooter, educator, and consultant. During this time he studied currency, banking, economics, taxes, law, philosophy, history, sociology, and politics using the analytical principles of systems theory. Barnard earned a Ph.D. in Applied Science specializing in Systems Philosophy.
Barnard began researching monetary and fiscal policy reform after hearing a professor at Louisiana State University remark during a lecture in the late 1960s that social and economic problems could be analyzed and solved with the same tools and techniques used to solve industrial problems. Barnard published the proposal into the public domain. It has not been introduced as a bill in Congress.
In January 2001] Barnard founded the NESARA Institute, a web-based non-profit educational organization focused upon monetary and fiscal policy education and reform.
In early 2005 he published his book, Draining the Swamp, an analysis of his new theory of money as well as a detailed explanation of his NESARA proposal.
