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Themes : Finance and money at the service of society

23 publications

• Reduced Work Time, Participatory Democracy and Time Currency

  Bruno Théret, December 2012

• Where does money come from? A guide to the UK monetary and banking system. Second Edition.

  Josh Ryan Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Andreas Werner, Andrew Jackson, November 2012

• People Money: The Promise of Regional Currencies

  Margrit Kennedy, Bernard Lietaer, John Rogers, Triarchy Press, UK, July 2012

• Solidarity finance through community development banks as a strategy for reshaping local economies: lessons from Banco Palmas

  Rausp. Revista de Administração., São Paulo, v.47, n.3, p.500-515, jul./ago/set. 2012

  Genauto Carvalho de França Filho, Jeová Torres Silva Júnior, Ariádne Scalfoni Rigo, July 2012

• Energy currency, proceedings of the first International Social Transformation Conference, July 2012, Split, Croatia

  Multiple authors, July 2012

• Energising money: An introduction to energy currencies and accounting

  Josh Ryan Collins, Ludwig Schuster, Tony Greenham, 2012

• Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link

  A report of the Club of Rome - EU chapter

  Bernard Lietaer, Christian Arnsperger, Sally Goerner, Stefan Brunnhuber, Triarchy Press, UK, 2012

• Thirty Years of Community and Complementary Currencies

  2012 Special Issue of JJCRR International Journal of Community Currency Researc

  Edited by Jérôme Blanc, 2012

• ECO-PESA: AN EVALUATION OF A COMPLEMENTARY CURRENCY PROGRAMME IN KENYA’S INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS

  International Journal of Community Currency Research Volume 15 (2011) Section A 1-12 <www.ijccr.net> ISSN 1325-­‐9547

  William O. Ruddick, 2011

• The Human Economy

  Keith Hart, Jean-Louis Laville, Antonio David Cattani (Editors), Polity, Cambridge, October 2010

• Your Money Or Your Life: Time For Both

  Martin Simon, Freedom Favours, UK, 2010

• The end of Money and the Future of Civilization

  Thomas H. Greco, Chelsea Green Publishers, UK, April 2009

• Money matters:Putting the eco into economics - global crisis, local solutions

  David Boyle, Alastair Sawday Publishing, UK, 2009

• The new economics of sustainable consumption : Seeds of change

  Gill Seyfang, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2009

• Money, Markets and Climate Change

  11th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, Kingston University, London July 9-12th 2009, with an earlier version presented to the Seventh Annual Conference of the Society for Heterodox Economics, Sydney, December 8, 2008

  Shann Turnbull, December 2008

• Triple crunch Joined-up solutions to financial chaos, oil decline and climate change to transform the economy

  November 2008

• The Politics of Money

  February 2006 issue of Vermont Commons, USA.

  Hazel Henderson, February 2006

• The Role of the Individual in Localizing Money Issue and Credit Creation

  Twenty-Fifth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2005, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

  Christopher Houghton Budd, 2006

• Healthy Money, healthy planet : Developing Sustainability through New Money Systems

  Deirdre Kent, Craig Potton publishing, New Zealand, June 2005

• No More Throw-Away People: The Co-Production Imperative (2nd edition)

  Edgar S. Cahn, Essential books Ltd, Usa, 2004

• Short Circuit: Strengthening Local Economies in an Unstable World

  Expanded online edition published June 2003 with updates by Richard Douthwaite, Joanne Elliott and Caroline Whyte.

  Richard Douthwaite, 2003

• The money changers : currency reform from Aristotle to e-cash.

  David Boyle, Earthscan, 2002

• The future of Money : creating new wealth, work and a wiser world

  Bernard Lietaer, Random House, UK, 2002

2 proposals

• Proposals for a Fair and Sustainable Economy. Contribution to the theme: production, distribution and consumption: access to wealth, common goods and a transitional economy at the Thematic Social Forum Porto Alegre 24-29 January 2012 in the run-up to the Rio+20 People’s Summit

  This document has been put together by Gustavo Marín with the help of Germà Pelayo and contributions from Cândido Grzybowski, Mattheiu Calame, Jorge Romano and Paul Raskin. It is based on presentations and discussions that focused on the economy during the seminar organized by Ibase, the Forum for a new World Governance (FnWG) and Euralat in Rio de Janeiro from 10 to 12 August 2011. It is of course a work in progress, and will benefit from further critiques and contributions.

  Gustavo Marin, December 2011

• Proposal paper for the 21 century : Social Money: Lever of the Economic Paradigm

  This Proposal Paper is a summary of the work by the « Social Money as a Lever for the New Economic Paradigm » Workshop.

  Françoise Wautiez, Heloisa Primavera, November 2001

9 Videos

• The Future of Money. Bernard Lietaer 2012 Time for Change Presents Part 1, 2 and 3

  Bernard Lietaer, 2012

• WIR Bank Report - RAI Television English SUB

  by Giorgio Simonetti

  2010

• Bernard Lietaer « Why this crisis? And what to do about it? » @ TEDx Berlin 11/30/09

  Bernard Lietaer, November 2009

• Ludwig Schuster – A New Monetary Pluralism from a recombination of regional economic circles to investing in a sustainable future.

  Ludwig Schuster, June 2009

• Hanbat Lets at Daejeon, Korea

  2007

• Berkshares experiment in Massachussetts, United States

  2007

• Money as debt (1 to 5)

  © Paul Grignon

  Paul Grignon, 2006

• Coming Home—E. F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy

  Chris Bedford, 2003

• JAK Bank Report Part 1-4 - Ethics - www.giorgiosimonetti.net

13 case studies

• The meanings of social currency on a peripheral neighborhood of a large urban center in Brazil.

  International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

  Juliana de Oliveira Barros Braz, Diego dos Santos Veiga Silva, February 2011

• Chiemgauer, Germany and Banco Palmas, Brazil

  Social money for sound community development

  Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota, January 2009

• Bia Kud Chum, a Thai Experience in Community Currency

  Rajni Bakshi, September 2008

• The South African New Economics (SANE)

  Rajni Bakshi, September 2008

• Residual Barter Networks and Macro-Economic Stability: Switzerland’s Wirtschaftsring

  James Stodder, December 2007

• Time Banks in the UK: Building Sustainable Communities

  The challenge to create sustainable communities is identified as a core priority in ‘Securing The Future’, the UK government’s strategy for sustainable development. Tackling social exclusion and building neighbourhood engagement are seen as principal elements of that objective, and there is an urgent need for tools and initiatives to achieve these aims. Community currencies are a grassroots innovation which claim to meet those goals. They are initiatives which develop and utilise an alternative medium of exchange, to enable people to trade goods and services without using cash.

  Gill Seyfang, September 2006

• BNB - The alternative currency of the Social Economy Network Cooperative in Basel, Switzerland

  2005

• The SANE Community Exchange System, South Africa

  Tim Jenkin, June 2004

• The Terra TRCTM White paper

  Many have a wait and see attitude to innovative proposals of this nature, but they shouldn’t with the Terra. The TRC reduces risk, stabilizes the world economy and is a more cost effective approach for international business.”

  Takashi Kiuchi, 2004

• LETS get real: constraints on the development of Local Exchange Trading Schemes

  Theresa J. Aldridge, Alan Patterson, 2002

• Presentation of Tucson Traders , USA

  Thomas H. Greco, March 2001

• Stories from an Appalachian Community

  Twentieth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2000, Salisbury, Connecticut

  Marie Cirillo, 2000

• Cereal Banks: Receipt of Deposit as a Method for Improving Liquidity at the Local Level

  Peter Moers, 2000

35 analyses

• desperadosTheory

  Desperado Pérez, 2012

• Currency Pluralism and Economic Stability: The Swiss Experience

  The Swiss complementary currency WIR is a classic example of monetary creation managed by economic agents lying outside the traditional banking system. When faced with tightening of credit or liquidity crises, Swiss small businesses increase their WIR transactions; when conditions improve, they return to the Swiss franc. This countercyclical effect illustrates the potential for parallel currencies to serve as tools for macroeconomic stability.

  Wojtek Kalinowski, November 2011

• Solidarity economy between a focus on the local and a global view Regional currencies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

  International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

  Krister Volkmann, February 2011

• Harnessing Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies and Sustainability

  International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

  Gill Seyfang, Noel Longhurst, February 2011

• Local Exchange Trade Systems in the Central European Post Communist Countries

  International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

  Petr JELÍNEK, Zsuzsanna Eszter SZALAY, Alois KONEČNÝ, February 2011

• “Selling Scrip to America: Ideology, Self-Help and the Experiments of the Great Depression”

  International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

  Sarah ELVINS, February 2011

• Classifying “CCs”: Community, complementary and local currencies’ types and generations

  International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

  Jérôme Blanc, February 2011

• Money Soup: A Legal Guide to Bartering, Giving, and Getting Stuff without Dollars

  Janelle Orsi, 2010

• A design of Complementary Community Currencies for education

  Josep Lluis de la Rosa, March 2009

• Social economy and Central banks: Legal and regulatory issues on social currencies (Social money) as a public policy instrument consistent with monetary policy

  International Journal of Community Currency Research Vol 13 (2009) pp.76 - 94

  Marusa Vasconcelos Freire, January 2009

• File: An Economics for well-being

  Rajni Bakshi, September 2008

• White Paper on All the Options for Managing a Systemic Bank Crisis

  Bernard Lietaer, Robert Dr. Ulanowicz, Sally Dr.Goerner, 2008

• Sustainable Consumption and the New Economics: Exploring an Alternative Approach.

  CSERGE Working Paper ECM 07-05

  Gill Seyfang, May 2007

• Personal Carbon Trading: Lessons from Complementary Currencies

  Efforts to mitigate climate change through managing carbon emissions are prompting new and imaginative policy proposals. One untested proposal to issue tradable carbon emission allowances (carbon currency) to all UK citizens, with the aim of limiting and reducing carbon emissions, is known as Personal Carbon Trading (PCT). The lack of empirical experience with PCT hinders its development, and so this paper makes a conceptual link with the field of complementary currencies (CCs) to explore similarities and derive lessons for success to aid the development and implementation of PCT.

  Gill Seyfang, April 2007

• Local Currencies in European History: an Analytical Framework

  A discussion of local currencies in European history, starting with the end of medieval times and ending with the 1970s, leading to the presentation of an analytical framework that should be useful in order to understand today’s local currencies movement. (Text presented at the Monetary Regionalisation conference, 28-29th September 2006, Weimar, Germany.)

  Jérôme Blanc, September 2006

• Establishing Time Based Community Currencies: Means of Measure, Exchange and Storage

  Stephan Hawranick Serra, March 2006

• Process of Designing and Implementing a Complementary Currency System

  Stephen DeMeulenaere, 2006

• Local Scrip in the USA During the 1930s: Lessons for Today?

  Loren Gatch, 2006

• Social Money and the new economic paradigm

  Presentation given at the Toubab Dialaw meeting, 19 November 2005, by Stephen Demeulenaere from the Social Money Workshop.

  Stephen DeMeulenaere, November 2005

• Complementary currency systems and the new economic paradigm

  Concept paper written for the WSSE Dakar, Senegal meeting (Nov 19-21, 2005).

  Stephen DeMeulenaere, October 2005

• Why Do We Need Monetary Innovation?

  Three common Misconceptions Three threatening Results Three possible Solutions

  Margrit Kennedy, 2005

• The power of facts Lessons from complementary currencies in Argentina

  European Conference on Community Currencies Bad Honnef, July 18-22nd, 2004

  Heloisa Primavera, July 2004

• Bartering for a Better Future? Community Currencies and Sustainable Consumption

  Gill Seyfang, 2004

• International regulations and social money: well timed permanence or a break from normality

  Preparatory Meeting for the launching of the Workshop on International Regulations within the context of a Solidarity Socio-Economy in an era of Neo-liberal Globalization Tokyo, October 9-11 2003.

  Heloisa Primavera, October 2003

• Comment on the Wörgl Experiment with Community Currency and Demurrage

  The text looks at demurrage, which is the intentional depreciation of a currency over time, the main object being to prevent its being hoarded and to speed its circulation from hand to hand. The most celebrated case in which a demurrage currency was issued was that of the Austrian town of Wörgl.

  Thomas H. Greco, May 2002

• Local currency as a development strategy

  A mathematical model on the use of local currencies

  Rajshri Jayaraman, Mandar Oak, March 2001

• Social money : Well timed permanence or break from normality ?

  Document for the debate of the Social Money Workshop. The author, inspired by the global network of barter of solidarity in Latin America, digs into money as a social phenomenon.

  Heloisa Primavera, January 2001

• Parallel currencies : evaluation and theorical background of the phenomenon

  Critical reappraisal of the money concept and general view of monetary uses.Centre de Recherches Walras, Lyon, France.

  Jérôme Blanc, August 1998

• Beyond Greed and Scarcity (an interview with Bernard Lietar by Sarah Van Gelder, editor of Yes, journal of positive futures, 1998)

  Sarah van Gelder talks to Bernard about the possibilities for a new kind of currency better suited to building community and sustainability.

  Bernard Lietaer, May 1998

• WIR and the Swiss National Economy

  Published by the WIR Bank, Basel. Title of German original: “WIR in unserer Volkswirtschaft”

  Tobias Dr. Studer, 1998

• Community Currency Systems: A Co-operative Option for the Developing World ?

  Peter Moers, 1998

• Local Exchange Trading Systems–A Rural Response to the Globalization of Capitalism?

  Michael Pacione, 1997

• Interest and Inflation Free Money. Creating an excange medium tat works for everybody and protects the earth

  Seva International; 1995 by Margrit Kennedy

  Margrit Kennedy, 1995

• Local Currencies: Catalysts for Sustainable Regional Economies

  Robert Swann, Susan Witt, 1995

• Community Currency Guide

  Bernard Lietaer, Gwendolyn Hallsmith

2 Charter/Manifesto

• Regional FAO/NGOs-CSOs Consultation for Europe and Central Asia, Baku (Azerbaijan), 15-17th of April 2012

  April 2012

• Manifesto Human and Resources Economic system

  2011

7 public contributions

• Complementary currencies for sustainable local economies in Central America

  International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

  February 2011

• ESF II: Report of the workshop: Money Moves the World

  The report of the « Money Moves the World » workshop held at the European Social Forum 2003 on Thursday November 13th in Paris Saint-Denis, France.

  November 2003

• Community Currencies in Japan

  A short report on some CCs in Kyushu, Western Japan.

  Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota, September 2003

• Wealth, money and power: the ephemeral “Argentinean miracle” of the exchange networks

  This text is Heloisa Primavera’s presentation during the introduction to the National Day of Solidarity-Based Barter and Economy, organized on 6 September 2002 by the Instituto del Conurbano, the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento and the PNUD. It was one of the reports from the panel on the phenomenon of money within barter networks and contributes to an understanding of the Argentine « case » from a more anthropological and predictive perspective.

  Heloisa Primavera, December 2002

• The Development of Islamic Banking and its Importance in the Emergence of Economic Democracy

  In June of 2001, a Symposium on Islamic banking and finance was held in Malaysia. This is the text of a welcoming keynote speech given by former Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad.

  Thomas H. Greco, November 2002

• Memorandum from the Social Money Workshop meeting (Santiago, Chile, April 2001)

  Report on the seminar on the topics of social money and new forms of economy of solidarity.

  Antonio Romero, April 2001

• A Pictorial History of Community Currency Systems

  Stephen DeMeulenaere, 2000