We have published our latest issue Volume 27 with new articles full of content. This time the focus is on the Far East with articles from Korea and Japan:

Jeremy September and Shigeto Kobayashi about LETS Passbook Communities as a special Japanese adaption of LETS.

Takushi Omuro with an interesting approach about Does the Use of Community Currency Change Pain of Paying and Willingness to Pay?

Seongkwang Seo with a Reexamination of Public and Community Currency Projects: in Korea about community projects and local money that is recognized as public project.

In our section “letters from the field”, Will Ruddick dives into ancestral wisdom and Commitment Pooling and applies this concept to today’s implementation using new technologies.

With a second part of Ideas for Debate: Elementary monetary concepts and storylines Jens Martignoni poses the provocative question that money is not a medium of exchange, which, if true, would have would have major implications for the concepts and designs of community currencies.

Find all new contributions also on the page “All Issues“.