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International Journal of Community Currency Research
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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 […]
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 […]
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.
Development at the Conjuncture of Feminism and Associationalism
May 23, 2012
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This article looks at whether or not Community Currency Systems form part of an alternative development agenda when analyzed through the lenses of feminism and associationalism. It begins by differentiating Alternative Development, as a static concept, from alternative development which is only comprehensible in its current context and form. The latter, according to the author, […]
April 30, 2013
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