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Julio Linares is an economic anthropologist from Guatemala. He holds an Msc in Anthropology and Development from the London School of Economics And Political Science and a MA in Applied Economics and Social Development from National ChengChi University (國立政治大學) in Taipei, Taiwan, where he lived for 6 years. From 2018, he has served as Public Outreach for the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), establishing regional and national networks in different continents. His research focus dwells on the relationship between money, direct democracy and basic income. Julio is currently based in Berlin, Germany, where he explored these topics in practice with the Circles UBI project from 2019-2023. His forthcoming book, Decolonizing Money (Pluto 2026) argues for the abolition of the US dollar as a means of achieving a social and ecological just transition.