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2011 Book Review Section
Peter North (2010), Local Money (Green Books, Totnes) reviewed by Georgina Gómez C1-2 Mary Mellor (2010) The Future of Money (Pluto Press, London) reviewed by Steve Hermans C2-3 Abdalhalim Orr and Abdassamad Clarke (eds) (2009) Banking: The root cause of the injustice of our time, (Diwan Press, London) reviewed by Ben Walker C3-5 Dierdre Kent […]
Calgary Dollars: Economic and Social Capital Benefits
May 29, 2012
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The Calgary Dollars complementary currency, which began in 1996, contributes to the knowledge of complementary currencies through repeated measurement of social and economic capital outcomes. This brief article provides a literature review and references some relevant government endorsements of complementary currency including the City of Calgary and the Alberta provincial complementary currency of 1936. Summaries […]
Downtown Dollars: Community currency or discount coupon?
May 29, 2012
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The literature on community currencies builds on the idea that communities can create their own currency to maintain the importance of place and build social and cultural capital. Using interviews, questionnaires, and a survey, this case study reports on the ability of one experiment with community currency, Downtown Dollars, a scrip program in Ardmore, Pennsylvania […]
Money and Participatory Governance: A review of the literature
May 29, 2012
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This paper provides an overview and discussion of several important approaches to the governance of monetary systems in the light of the extent to which all stakeholders have full input into monetary decision-making processes. Currency scale and various approaches to monetary governance are explored, identifying a number of key limitations with previous approaches and highlighting […]
The Burlington Currency Project: A History
May 29, 2012
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Burlington Currency Project (BCP) existed for 10 years in Burlington, Vermont, USA (1997 to 2007) and administered the community currency, Burlington Bread. There were many distinct phases during the life of BCP. It started out as an adhoc group of volunteers and eventually found a level of institutional and city support before closing due to […]
Community Currency Research: An analysis of the literature
May 29, 2012
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This article provides an analysis of the literature about community currencies. 1099 sources written in a variety of different languages form the basis of this study. Both empirical and theoretical contributions have been considered. The first step is to make explicit the composition of this database. This implies that the field of research is circumscribed; […]
A Theoretical Framework for Shared Monetary Governance
May 29, 2012
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Shared Monetary Governance builds a framework for community level governance of money and fills part of the gap in the literature of monetary governance. The approach begins with consistent treatment by national regulatory frameworks vis-à-vis both national and non- national currency institutions. Regulatory framework tolerance is measured by equating more participatory processes with higher degrees […]
Time is of the Essence: The Challenges and Achievements of a Swedish Time Banking Initiative
May 29, 2012
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This study focuses on the only existing time banking initiative in Sweden – TidsNätverket i Bergsjön (TNB). It explores the organization’s: 1) challenges, 2) achievements with regard to empowering its participants and creating social capital, as well as 3) if these can be attributed to TNB’s use of time banking. The semi-structured interviews and studies […]
Eco-Pesa: An Evaluation of a Complementary Currency Programme in Kenya’s Informal Settlements
May 29, 2012
The aim of the Eco-Pesa programme was to promote and facilitate environmental social service work and economic development in impoverished informal settlements (slums) through the innovative use of a complementary currency. This complementary currency, called Eco-Pesa, was backed by the national currency and introduced through the registration of 75 small local businesses, price discounting, community […]
May 29, 2012
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