General Resources, Complementary Currencies, LETS, Timebanks
Other Trading Systems, Events, Economics in General,
Banking, Books, Articles and Stories, Activism & Politics,
Newsletters and Mailing Lists,
IT and Software, Links Pages
General Resources
- Margrit Kennedy's personal site
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Margrit Kennedy, on the subject of money.
- MonNetA - Money Network Alliance
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MonNetA is a non-profit organisation of Lebensgarten Steyerberg e.V. - for the development
of Regional Payment Systems. MonNetA brings together teams of recognised authorities in
the area of Monetic Incentive Systems and complementary currencies to support the
development and implementation of both paper and electronic Regional Payment
Systems. In addition MonNetA assists in the creation of inter-regional networking
and transaction facilitation, dissemination of knowledge - and training for implementation.
- Access Foundation
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Alliance of Complementary Currencies Enabling Sustainable Societies. The
ACCESS Foundation is an international, educational, non-profit organization
dedicated to the betterment of humankind through the understanding and use
of complementary monetary innovations.
- Transaction Net
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A comprehensive site that explains how money works.
- Reinventing Money.Com
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The mission of this site is to demystify money by presenting the best leading-edge
ideas on monetary and non-monetary exchange. It is a resource devoted to the
advancement of economic democracy, self-determination, and global harmony.
- Local Exchange Systems in the Global South
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For researchers, academics and economic development practitioners we provide the most complete
Library of Materials on "appropriate economics" on the internet, including a wide range of
documents and materials on history, money, religion, global economics, and how to implement
appropriate local economic systems.
- Stable Money Network
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This is the website of the New Zealand registered charity aiming to support the development of
complementary money systems that are interest and inflation free.
- Strohalm
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Strohalm is a research and development institute that supports the creation of
new monetary and economic systems to provide new opportunities and advantages to
businesses and individuals to move towards a sustainable economy.
- Monetary Reform Magazine
- Monetary Reform ON-Line
is the digital companion to the popular magazine. (Canada)
Local Community Currencies Around The World
- Eko Community Currency, Findhorn, Scotland
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It began with a �trial period� during which various community organisations including the Phoenix Shop,
Findhorn Bay Caravan Park, the Green Room Caf�, and the Findhorn Foundation all agreed to accept
the Eko notes in exchange for any good or service rendered. There is nothing preventing anyone
else accepting them, and indeed since the launch, a number of additional community traders
have enrolled as well...
- Ithaca HOURs,
Ithaca, NY, USA
- Making a Community While Making a Living!
- Toronto Dollar, Canada
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The work of the Toronto Dollar is to encourage more caring social and economic relationships
among people from the community, business and government sectors -- and particularly with those
in the community sector in greatest economic need..
- Salt Spring Island Dollars, Canada
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The concept of Salt Spring Island Dollars was the result of roundtable discussions of the Sustainable Salt Spring
Island Coalition.
- Chiemgauer, Germany
Article in English-
Nestled away in Germany�s high-tech and entrepreneurial region of Bavaria, in
the bustling and prosperous area of Chiemgau, an experiment is underway that
not only supports the local Waldorf school system, but also encourages patronage
of local business. Six young women, all in their late teens and students at the
Steiner school, have started an enterprise using a new kind of money.
- Openmoney
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Open money is a means of exchange freely available to all. Any community,
any association - indeed, any body - can have their own money.
LETS
Timebanks
- Time Dollar USA
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Time Dollar USA seeks to build local economies and communities that reward decency,
caring, and a passion for justice by developing, testing, and assisting experiments
with a new medium of exchange called Time Dollars (also known as service credits
or time banking.) One hour helping others equals one Time Dollar.
- TimeKeeper, US
- A new, tax-exempt
currency that empowers people to convert their personal time into purchasing power
by helping others and by rebuilding family, neighborhood and community.
- Time Banks UK
- Time Banks UK
links together and supports time banks across the UK.
- London Time Bank
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The network of time banks for London.
- Fair Shares, UK
- A new kind of money
that rewards the care and trust that hold us together and make communities work. It's
about TIME!
- Time Bucks, USA
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We're a Community Skills Exchange that helps turn the activities that people enjoy into
services that meet practical needs or enrich people's lives in ways they hadn't imagined.
Members use TimeBucks to meet people and find outlets for their creativity. We're an eclectic
group of people (not businesses!) who support one another through a wide variety interpersonal trades.
Other Trading Systems
- Barter Card New Zealand
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Take advantage of down time, idle capacity and surplus stock. Convert
these lost opportunities to a real currency you can spend as needed.
- The TERRA
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The Trade Reference Currency (TRC)� is a new currency privately issued by the TRC Alliance,
with a built-in circulation incentive that could play a significant role in getting
the world out of recession. Its unit of account is the Terra.
- Art Money Denmark
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Welcome to BIAM, Bank of International Art Money. This is a bank for a very concrete currency: "Art Money".
Collectively the bank represents one of the largest portals for visual art and one of the
largest human network systems connecting people from the whole world.
- ARK - APPLIED RESOURCE KNOWLEDGE
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This Website is dedicated to finding 12 individuals who have the desire to work
together to help complete the beginning stages of a new, more balanced and more
benevolent economic system.
Events
- Local Currencies in the 21st century
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25 - 27 Jun 2004, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, US
The conference brought 300 people, representing 14 different countries, to Bard College
during the weekend of June 25-27th. The conference was truly a seminal event, a landmark
in the effort to bring local currencies to the main stream.
- Future of Money Summit 2005
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Spring 2005, New York City, U.S.
The mission of the Summit is to explore the evolving forms of money and the complex and
broad-ranging effect it is having on technology, business, society, and public policy.
Economics In General
- The New Economics Foundation UK
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nef is an independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being.
We aim to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge
mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues. We work in partnership
and put people and the planet first.
- Open-Economy
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Open-Economy is an open space to discuss and practice radical social change, through economics.
- Workgroup on a Solidarity Socio-Economy (WSSE)
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The Workgroup on a Solidarity Socio-Economy (WSSE) is a global network of debate among grassroots actors,
researchers and committed people who collectively generate and promote proposals and strategies for
socio-economic transformation.
- COMER The Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform
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COMER monitors and evaluates economic and monetary policy through
education, information, and suggestions of monetary and economic alternatives.
- SANE - South African New Economics Network
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An independent network for the creation of a humane, just, sustainable
and culturally appropriate economic system in South Africa.
- TheTransitioner
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Collective Intelligence in the Economy,
Economy in Collective Intelligence
- Green Economics
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Why should economics have become of so much interest to people in the Green movement?
Green are characterised by their concern for the planet, for people and animals.
So the field of economics, with its abstract mathematical models and it concentration
on concepts such as 'growth' and 'money' might seem alien territory; and so it has proved.
- Medium "money"
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What is wrong with our money?
- The New Approach To Freedom
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"Not money, but a false money system is the root of all evil." This new concept is a challenge to
the academic economist and a bid to the layman to enter
into the practical mastery of a subject that has heretofore been enshrouded in mystery.
E.C. Riegel
- Creating Community Currency
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The difference between money and real wealth.
- The Global Ideas Bank
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The ideas bank contains thousands of ideas from every corner of the globe. Search the bank
for 'money'!
- The Mondragon Cooperative System
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One of the best current models for how capital might be localized is the Mondragon system
of cooperatives in Mondragon, Spain. The Mondragon system is noted for its democratic
worker-owner structure and the economic success that it has enjoyed over the many decades
of existence.
- Proutist Universal
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Home of the Progressive Utilisation Theory (PROUT). PROUT is an alternative to the
outmoded capitalist and communist socio-economic paradigms. Neither of these approaches
have adequately met the physical, mental and spiritual needs of humanity. PROUT seeks a
harmonious balance between economic growth, social development, environmental sustainability,
and between individual and collective interests.
- Universal Income Trust of Aotearoa NZ (New Zealand)
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Note, this site contains a diverse array of opinions, ideas, information, and perspectives. The
Universal Income Trust does not necessarily agree to all that is written or presented here. The
information provided is for its potential to help illumine the visitor to the vastness, and the
underlying currents of unity, to the fields of economic rights and Universal Income Systems. This
Universal Income Website has been developed and is now managed by Patrick Danahey, who has researched
and written the core articles here.
- Altruists International
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We are an optimistic, positive community with members from both the under- and the over-developed
world. We are united by our commitment that a money-centred struggle for personal gain is no way
to make the world a better place. We try to ignore money but put people at the heart of what we
do, concentrating on what will be of real benefit to others.
- Gaian Economics
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Gaian Economics is an internet showcase for a group of researchers who agree that the major problems
facing humanity have their root in our economic system and recognise the need to develop a new kind
of economics. We can think especially of the environmental crisis and the seemingly endless conflict
caused by the injustice of the globalised market.
- Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics, a movie
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With irony and intelligence Marilyn Waring demystifies the language of economics by defining it
as a value system in which all goods and activities are related only to their monetary value and
monetary exchange with the result that unpaid work, usually done by women, is unrecognized and
activities that may be environmentally and socially hazardous are regarded as productive. She
maps out an alternative economic vision based on the idea of time as the one thing we all have
to exchange. Shot in Canada, New Zealand, New York City, the Persian Gulf and the Philippines
this film is an entertaining primer for anyone who suffers from what Waring calls "economics anxiety."
- The Corporation, Canada - a Movie
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One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid,
dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party
in other times and places, the corporation is today�s dominant institution. Based on Bakan�s book The Corporation:
The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, the film is a timely, critical inquiry that invites CEOs,
whistle-blowers, brokers, gurus, spies, players, pawns and pundits on a graphic and engaging quest to
reveal the 4corporation�s inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures.
Banking
- JAK Bank, Sweden
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The JAK MEMBERS BANK is the first interest-free bank in Sweden.
- An Assessment of Sweden's JAK Bank, by Mark Anielski
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This is one of the first English assessments of Sweden's remarkable JAK Members� Bank - a
cooperative, no-interest members-owned-bank.
- International JAK Forum
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This is a First Class Conference System. You can join the conference about our interest
free savings and loan system. The conference is administered by JAKs International Network,
which is a group of members of JAK. The conference is open for all and we hope that interested
parties from both Sweden and other countries will exchange ideas and experiences about interest
free economy.
- WIR, Switzerland
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"Wirtschafts Ring", Switzerland. Website in German, French and Italian only.
- WIR Bank in Switzerland, by Declan Kennedy
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The WIR Bank in Switzerland is a type of co-operative bank, based on a membership and with its own
Complementary Currency. The system may well be transferable to Regional Complementary Currency
Systems (RCCS) elsewhere, with its Credit/Debit Card system and its electronic payment methods.
- Monetary Reform Magazine Archives
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Articles and information has been selected from back issues of Monetary Reform Magazine and placed in Archives.
We hope the information provided will be of benefit to you. The selected articles are mainly around banking.
- The Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance
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The Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance is one of the world's leading independent academic and
research organisation solely dedicated to the promotion and implementation of Islamic finance.
- Islamic Banking Infobase
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Islamic banking law, at present, has been classified into the seven titles shown below. The classification
may be expanded and altered as material is collected and placed on this site.
Books, Articles and Stories
- "Interest and Inflation
Free Money" (Book)
by Margarit Kennedy
- Money is one of humankind's most ingenious inventions - and also
one its most dangerous. Interest and Inflation Free Money offers a clear, simple explanation of
how financial policies shape the global markets - and how interest wrecks cultures, ecosystems,
and economic systems.
- "The Future of Money" by Bernard Lietaer
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ex-Belgium Central Banker and one time currency trader now advocating global
interest free currency.
- "The Natural Economic Order" by Silvio Gesell
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full text, translated into English by Phillip Pye
- "New Money for Healthy Communities" (Book)
- by Thomas H. Greco, Jr. The pinnacle of power in today's world is the power to issue
money. If that power can be democratized and focused in a direction which gives social
and ecological concerns top priority, then there may yet be hope for saving the world.
(full text online!)
- "PRIVATE ENTERPRISE MONEY, A Non-Political Money System" (Book)
- By E. C. Riegel, 1944. (full text online)
THERE is a fundamental evil of which the convulsion of war is but the dramatic manifestation and of which the nations must
be purged before reconstruction can begin. THIS EVIL IS THE ECONOMIC SIN OF ISSUING MONEY WITHOUT BACKING IT.
- "The Money Syndrome ;
Paths to an Economic Order Free from Crises", an online book by Helmut Creutz
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Translated by Hans Eisenkolb, B.C., Ca. and Robert Mittelstaedt. This book is a good
source of information on money, how it is made and used.
- "Funny Money by David Boyle
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This is a site about money: not the usual kind of pounds or dollars, but new kinds conjured
maybe out of the imagination of the people who need to use it, but which are concrete enough
to change the our disastrous dependence on a wildly fluctuating global economic system.
- "The Grip Of Death" by Michael Rowbotham
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A study of modern money, debt slavery and destructive economics This lucid and original account of where
our money comes from explains why most people, businesses and countries are so heavily in debt. It's all
about subjects very close to home: mortgages, building societies and banks, food and farming, transport,
worldwide poverty, and what's on the supermarket shelf.
- New Money for healty communities, article by Thomas H. Greco
- The
pinnacle of power in today's world is the power to issue money. If that power can be
democratized and focused in a direction which gives social and ecological concerns
top priority, then there may yet be hope for saving the world.
- A Market Economy without
Capitalism, an essay by Werner Onken
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An overview of the basic concept, its historical origins and present state of development;
Information about organisations promoting "Free Economy" and suggestions for further reading
on the topic.
- International Journal of Community Currency
Research
- The aim of this journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of
knowledge and understanding about the emerging array of community currencies being used
throughout the world both at present and in the past.
- Materialien zu Silvio Gesell
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Deutschsprachige Materialien ~ Links and sources in English
- Depreciating community-owned currencies, article
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An article by David Weston on the Woergl experiment of 1932-33
- The Law of Supply and Demand
, by Hans Eisenkolb
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Everybody, who thinks at all about economics takes it for granted and hardly gives it a second thought.
Yet hardly anybody understands how deeply it controls all aspects of the base of human survival- our economy.
- LETS Engineering Mathematics, article by John C. Turmel, B. Eng.
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As Galbraith remarks, higher interest rates, it is hoped, "will
curb inflation." These comments of Galbraith illustrate why, although
the raising of interest rates is the weapon against inflation chosen
by those who profit by it, it is also clear that as a method it cannot
finally work. John Turmel, a Canadian civil engineer and campaigner
against usury, has in two long articles brought algebra, plumbing and
poetry to bear on the task."
- GOVERNMENTS AND MONEY, by Jerry L. Jordan
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at the Cato Journal by the Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.
- Robinsonade, by S. Gesell
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as a Manga (Comic Strip from Japan). Text by Eiichi Morino, Drawings by kokiriko, English translation by Robert Mittelstaedt
- A Story Of Robinson Crusoe, by S. Gesell
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To introduce the theory of interest here expounded, and to facilitate the removal of old
prejudices, which are nowhere stronger than in connection with the subject of interest,
I shall begin with a story of Robinson Crusoe. *
Activism & Politics
- ATTAC International
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nternational movement for democratic control of financial markets and their institutions
- Jubilee Aotearoa
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Debt Action Network. We are a network of agencies and individuals in New Zealand working
together for the cancellation of the unjust and unpayable debts of poor countries.
Jubilee Aotearoa is a local network but is linked to other Jubilee and debt campaigns
in countries all around the world, poor and rich, south and north.
- NZ Democrates, New Zealand
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The NZ Democratic Party's aims are the furthering of social, environmental and economic
justice for this country. In order to achieve these aims we advocate the use of practical,
commonsense fiscal and monetary instruments which do not burden society with compounding
debt - debt which eventually undermines efforts to build a better world.
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Newsletters And Mailing Lists
- Electronz
- The NZ monetary reform weekly
e-zine ( edited by Don Bethune, QSM )
- Int'l Jrnl o Community Currency Research - Yahoo Group
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To provide a forum for the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the emerging array of community
currencies (including 'money-based' systems such as LETS, 'time-based' systems such as time dollars, other
scrip-based community exchanges, as well as business trade exchanges) being used throughout the world both
at present and in the past.
- Archives of [email protected]
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A mailing list on LETS and community currency issues.
- Prosperity - Freedom From Debt Slavery
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A monthly journal on Money Reform, based in Glasgow, Scotland
which campaigns for publicly-created debt-free money.
- Mailing list on Social Credit
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Discussion group relating to the historical and theoretical aspects of the Social Credit movement.
Seems also to be discussing interest-free banking issues.
IT & Software
- World Wide Complementary Currency IT Department,
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Pick one of the tiki features (Articles, Forums, RSS, Banners, etc.) that you'd like
to see in action and set up a best practice that we can all enjoy, learn from, and
use on our next websites!
- Payment mechanisms
designed for the Internet
- This is a collection of links and pointers to existing payment
schemes that were designed for, or are in use on, the Internet.
- Timekeeper for Time Dollar
- Timekeeper
for Time Dollar is a program for keeping member accounts for Time Dollar members
and for matching Providers to Recipients. The program is free of charge.
- Contact Rob Spijkerman, in New Zealand
- who has created a
version of Lets software written in MS Access that provides functional management of any LETS
exchange/ green dollar exchange.- it is fully functional and supports all aspects of community
trading.
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