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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 […]
2012 Special Issue: Thirty Years of Community and Complementary Currencies
July 9, 2012
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Bringing together 17 new research papers from around the world, this special issue celebrates thirty years of community and complementary currencies, and assesses their impacts, potential and challenges. Edited by Jerome Blanc. View the papers individually, using the menu above, or download the whole issue here. IJCCR 2012 Vol 16 Special Issue Complete Editorial Thirty […]
2011 Special Issue: Complementary Currencies: State of the Art
July 1, 2012
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IJCCR 15 (2011) Special Issue (Section D) Edited by Noel Longhurst and Gill Seyfang Comprising 15 papers from researchers and academics at the cutting edge of complementary currency development, this special issue represents a powerful consolidation of the state of the art in this field. View the papers individually, using the menu above, or download […]
Complementary Currency Open Source Software in 2010
May 29, 2012
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Matthew Slater. This report briefly covers the field of non-commercial mutual credit software, discussing the issues and challenges the projects collectively faced in meeting the needs of the movement.
The Colours of Money: Artmoney as Community Currency
May 29, 2012
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Mark Banks. Artmoney is a community currency based on the production and exchange of original art. Drawing from ongoing research, this article asks, what is the meaning and value of art-money in a global cultural economy?
Time Banking in Social Housing
May 29, 2012
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Ruth Naughton-Doe. A social enterprise Spice has pioneered a new method of time banking that works with public services in an innovative way. This article briefly examines current time banking practices in the UK to set the scene for a discussion of Spice’s approach when applied in Social Housing.
A Report from Vermont (USA): The VBSR Marketplace
May 29, 2012
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Amy Kirschner. This paper described and evaluates a peer to peer mutual credit system now in operation in the State of Vermont.
Building Local Resilience: The emergence of the UK Transition Currencies
May 29, 2012
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This paper examines the emergence of a new type of local currency – ‘Transition Currencies’ – in the United Kingdom over the past 4 years. The Transition Currency ‘model’, shared by the initial four schemes, is explained and the theoretical roots of the schemes reviewed. The paper goes on to examine the success and limitations […]
The SOL: A Complementary Currency for the Social Economy and Sustainable Development
May 29, 2012
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This paper reviews experience with The SOL, a very innovative and interesting complementary currency scheme which has been tested in France since 2007. It aims to contribute to the development of the social and solidarity economy, and contribute towards sustainable development. The SOL is the result of an informal working group who in 1998 examined […]
Kékfrank to Boost the Resilience of Locality
May 29, 2012
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A small group of entrepreneurs in Sopron (Hungary), led by Tamás Perkovátz, decided in autumn of 2008, to make the local economy – which was previously famous for its grape and wine – prosper again, and to unite the economies of the area cut into three parts, belonging to three different countries. Thus they created […]
April 30, 2013
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