Implementing Values
“But I am not sure that what some people today see as the global renaissance of complementary currencies should be attributed to the global crisis,” Bindewald says. “Other factors like lower transaction costs through technological advancements and a more networked … Read the rest
Illustrating the distinction made beteen the terms “money” and “currency” in another article on this site, this Prezi-tation by Arthur Brock of the Metacurrency project offers a good segue into the next distinction of value and wealth: Continue reading “The unique value proposition of complementary currencies”
Trying to explain what complementary currencies “really” are, leads to different answers depending on who askes and who answers. Even getting the basics laid out, like “what is money?” and “what is a currency?” seems to produce conflicting answers by different prominent actors in this young discipline. Without drilling into other troublesome discourses of terminology that many natural allies often get into heated debates about, e.g. the delimitation of “complementary currency” vs “community currency” vs “alternative” and “parallel currency”, I just want to point to one particular and basic rift I see at the moment, stemming from two different views of “currency” and “money”.
Continue reading “Terminology: Currency vs Money”
Unser Denken ist an die Begriffe gebunden, die wir verwenden. Und diese Gebundenheit bestimmt unsere Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit sowohl für das, was um uns herum geschieht, als auch für das, was wir selber tun und meinen, tun zu können. Continue reading “Essay: Geld als Soziale Technik (Money as a social technology)”
This is the introductory text published on and about an community exchange platform implemented at the HUB Brussels in 2010. With the closure of the HUB Brussels this pilot has been discontinued. A funding applications for the scaling and further