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Tax Anticipation Scrip as a Form of Local Currency in the USA during the 1930s
Loren Gatch: This article surveys the varieties of tax anticipation scrip issue during the 1930s Great Depression, and suggests some applications to non-crisis circumstances.
Selling Scrip to America: Ideology, Self-help and the experiments of the Great Depression
July 2, 2012
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Sarah Elvins: Although there was no single pattern to the use of alternative currency in America during the Great Depression, the arguments used by supporters of scrip often played on common themes. Scrip appealed to American notions of self-help and individualism, and few Americans were willing to embrace radical change.
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 […]
Time for Each Other: Working Towards a Complementary Currency Model to Serve the Anti-Poverty Policies of the Municipality of Landgraaf, the Netherlands
May 29, 2012
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In 2007, the Dutch municipality of Landgraaf requested an investigation into whether a community currency could support its anti-poverty policies. The literature research assembled empirical data on scrip, LETS and Time Banks. Their effects were evaluated against a set of specific goals: poverty relief, provision of care, social integration and return of long-term unemployed to […]
July 2, 2012
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