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International Journal of Community Currency Research
July 9, 2012
Taking Moneyless Exchange to Scale: Measuring and Maintaining the Health of a Credit Clearing System
Every day brings reports of new financial crises and financial malfeasance within the banking and financial establishment. In an effort to keep the banking system functioning, the largest banks and financial institutions have been relieved by national governments of tremendous amounts of their bad debts, shifting that burden onto the shoulders of the citizenry. At […]
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Bitcoin: The Political ‘Virtual’ Of An Intangible Material Currency
April 19, 2013
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This paper concerns the open source software project Bitcoin, which is often described as virtual cash. The paper investigates what ‘virtual’ signifies when applied to ‘cash’ and in turn what ‘virtual cash’ says about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the latest cryptographic effort to create digital cash-like tokens, where Bitcoin’s designer Nakamoto argues that users now no […]
Posted in: 17 (2013), research article
Improving Complementary Currency Interchange By A Regional Hub-Solution
April 9, 2013
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Groups involved in complementary currencies (CC’s) that push for an interchange between their member-currencies are not yet a favourite subject in the existing CC-grassroots movement. One reason could be the existing doubts of activists that such structures might be non-transparent, support instability, raise corruption or be a gate for the comeback of the ruling system […]
Posted in: 17 (2013), research article
2013 Book review section
March 9, 2013
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Our round-up of the latest books on community currencies. Added to throughout the year. Equal Time, Equal Value by Collom et al. People Money by Kennedy et al.
Posted in: 17 (2013), book review
2012 Book review section
November 20, 2012
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Our round-up of the latest books on community currencies.
Posted in: 16 (2012), book review
Are Alternative Currencies A Substitute Or A Complement To Fiat Money? Evidence From Cross-Country Data
October 11, 2012
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Damjan Pfajfar, Giovanni Sgro, and Wolf Wagner. This paper studies the determinants of usage of alternative currencies. We find evidence that these currencies, in contrast to their historical function, mainly act as a complement to fiat money.
Posted in: 16 (2012), research article
Announcing the 2nd International Conference on Complementary Currency Systems, June 2013
October 11, 2012
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2nd International Conference on Complementary Currency Systems: Multiple moneys and development: making payments in diverse economies Organised by the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands June 19th to 22nd, 2013 (Academic strand: 19th and 20th June; Practitioners’ strand: 21st and 22nd June) The conference seeks to discuss […]
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April 30, 2013
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