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The Social and Cultural Capital of Community Currency, An Ithaca HOURS Case Study Survey

May 23, 2012

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In this article the authors report and analyze the data from an interview survey of 42 Ithaca HOURS community currency users. The theoretical context for the study is social capital, and the survey seeks to answer questions centering around the extent the interviewees participate in networks of reciprocity, trust and support. The survey results indicate […]

HOUR Town – Paul Glover and the Genesis and Evolution of Ithaca HOURS

May 23, 2012

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Ithaca HOURS are, arguably, the most successful of the local currency experiments of the last two decades. At the height of their popularity in the mid-1990s, perhaps as many as 2,000 of Ithaca and region’s 100,000 residents were buying and selling with HOURS. The high profile of HOURS in the Ithaca community has prompted a […]

Kaláka and Kör: Green money and mutual aid in Hungary

May 23, 2012

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This article discusses progress in developing alternative currencies in a post-socialist environment, Hungary. It discusses alternative currency programmes developed by Hungarians inspired by Austrian Talentum schemes, and some developed through East-West co-operation between the UK and Hungary. The article reports a number of problems in introducing approaches to alternative currencies that might work well in […]

Complementary Currencies in Japan Today: History, Originality and Relevance

May 23, 2012

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Since 1995 the number of experiments with complementary currencies in Japan has exploded. Not only is Japan the country in the world with the most systems in operation today, but also the nation with the greatest diversity of such experiments. The aim of this paper is to bring to light the strata of the heterogeneous […]

Editorial 2004 (volume 8)

May 23, 2012

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Colin C Williams Volume 8(2004) 0 IJCCR vol 8 (2004) 0 Editorial

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