Evaluation the success of your community currency project.
Written with my NEF colleague Susan Steed.
This handbook has been designed by the New Economics Foundation (NEF), on behalf of the Community Currencies in Action … Read the rest
NEF Research: Energising Money
An introduction to energy currencies and accounting.
Written by my future NEF colleagues Josh Ryan-Collins and Tony Greeham, and my colleague in Berlin at the time Ludwig Schuster.
Download the full PDF here.
Modern interest-bearing bank-debt money creates the … Read the rest
The unique value proposition of complementary currencies
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”
Terminology: Currency vs Money
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”.
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Research: IJCCR – Trophic Currencies, ecosystem modelling and resilient economies
by Marc Brakken (University of Wisconsin), Preston Austin (timeFTW.org), Stephanie Rearick (DCTB) , Leander Bindewald
Abstract
Wealth is limited. We propose that value is infinite. … Read the rest