Complementary money, a tool for economic transition

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24 publications

• Towards a sustainable world: 3 Paradigm shifts

  Bernard Lietaer, Helga Preuss, Marek Hudon, Kristof de Spiegeleer, Dieter Legat, Cary Sherburne, Delta Institute - Dieter Legat E.U, Vienna/Wien, Austria, November 2019

• Community currencies. Opportunities and challenges for local government.

  Joost Bos, Becky Booth, CCIA partners at Amsterdam East council, May 2015

• Social and Solidarity Economy. Beyond the Fringe.

  Peter Utting, ZED books UK, April 2015

• Debt or Democracy Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice

  Mary Mellor, Pluto Press, UK, 2015

• People Powered Money. Designing, developing & delivering community currencies.

  Community Currencies in Action (CCIA), Community Currencies in Action (CCIA), 2015

• Rethinking money. How new currencies turn scarcity into prosperity.

  Bernard Lietaer, Jacky Dunne, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, United States, February 2013

• 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

  NEF

• Occupy money: Creating an economy where everybody wins.

  Margrit Kennedy, New Society Publishers, United States, October 2012

• People Money: The Promise of Regional Currencies

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

• Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link

  A report of the Club of Rome - EU chapter

  Bernard Lietaer, Christian Arnsperger, Stefan Brunnhuber, Sally Dr.Goerner, 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

• Life without money : building fair and sustainable economies

  Edited by Anitra Nelson, Frans Timmerman, Pluto Press, USA, November 2011

• Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition.

  Charles Eisenstein, Evolver Editions, United States, July 2011

• Creating Wealth. Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies.

  Bernard Lietaer, Gwendolyn Hallsmith, New Society Publishers, United States, May 2011

• New money for a new world

  Bernard Lietaer, Stephen Belgin, Qiterra Press, 2011

• 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

• Argentina’s Parallel Currency The Economy of the Poor

  Georgina M. Gómez, Pickering and Chatto Publishers, London, UK, 2009

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

  David Boyle, Alastair Sawday Publishing, UK, 2009

• Alternative Currency Movements As a Challenge to Globalisation?: A Case Study of Manchester’s Local Currency Networks

  Peter North, Ashgate Publishing, Limited, December 2005

• 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

• 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 thesis

• From Client to Comrade: Alternative Currency and Market Relations in Mexico

  Thesis, University of Manchester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities

  Jeremy John Gunson, 2019

• MAKING MARKETS. The institutional rise and decline of the Argentine Red de Trueque.

  Doctoral thesis, Institute of Social Studies: The Hague (NL)

  Georgina M. Gómez, April 2008

34 Videos

• Democratizing Monetary Issue: Tools for Resilience | Schumacher Conversations

  September 2023

  NEI

• Series of videos: Taking back our economy

  2021

• Using Timebanking In The Time of Covid-19

  Solidarity Chicago - The Kola Nut cooperative

  April 2020

• #SSEMomentum - Day 1

  International conference “The SSE Momentum: Finance for Inclusion and the Future of Work”, Trento, Nov 2019

  November 2019

  BIT/ILO

• Democratizing money for a stable, sustainable and fair future | Christian Gelleri | TEDxKassel

  October 2019

• Audio : Beyond Money Podcast : Episode 3. Will Ruddick

  April 2019

• Audio : Beyond Money Podcast : Episode 2. Heloisa Primavera

  February 2019

• Unblock HongKong - Interview with Will Ruddick - Director at BANCOR

  William O. Ruddick, September 2018

• Kola Nut Collaborative

  Midwest Socialist

  September 2018

• How to Give People the Same Power As Banks

  William O. Ruddick, June 2018

• Documentary on Will Ruddick and Kenyan Community Currencies (HD)

  William O. Ruddick, November 2017

• The power of a local currency | Florence Siegenthaler | TEDxBasel

  October 2017

• IV Conferencia Internacional de Monedas Sociales y Complementarias: Dinero, Conciencia y Valores para el Cambio Social : Challenges of collective organization and institution building around community currencies in Kenyan slums.

  May 2017

• Thomas Greco - A World Without Money and Interest

  December 2016

• PALMAS - legendas Inglês

  EDLISA B. PEIXOTO, March 2016

• Rob Hopkins on Local Currency as Community Wealth Expander July 2015

  July 2015

• The New Currency with Henk van Arkel

  February 2015

• Thomas Greco (Economist) - Sacrée croissance - ARTE

  Marie-Monique Robin, November 2014

• Bernard Lietaer - Why money needs to change now!

  November 2014

• The Co-op Cred Program Video

  Parc -Toronto

  June 2014

• Bangla-Pesa - Empowering a Grassroots Economy

  William O. Ruddick, October 2013

• Local Currencies for Global Resilience

  June 2013

• Georgina Gómez : Trading Scale for Solidarity in the Community Currency Systems in Argentina.

  UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”, Geneva, 6-8 May 2013

  May 2013

  UNRISD

• Bangla-Pesa Documentary 2013

  William O. Ruddick, 2013

• A flaw in the monetary system

  2013

  Monneta.org

• TEM - a complementary currency in Volos

  Copyright SBS (Special Broadcasting Service Corporation, Australie)

  December 2012

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

  Bernard Lietaer, 2012

• Bernard Lietaer: Money diversity

  November 2011

• JAK Bank Report Part 1-4 - Ethics

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

  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

• BANCO PALMAS

  2009

• Hanbat Lets at Daejeon, Korea

  2007

• Money as debt (1 to 5)

  © Paul Grignon

  Paul Grignon, 2006

3 pedagogical tools

• Community currencies. Opportunities and challenges for local government.

  CCIA partners at Amsterdam East council Joost Bos, Becky Booth, May 2015

• People Powered Money. Designing, developing & delivering community currencies.

  Community Currencies in Action (CCIA), 2015

• No small change. Evaluating the success of your community currency project

  April 2014

  NEF

2 proposals

• Solar Dollars – a way to promote renewable energy, while supporting the local economy and providing interest-free financing for utility companies

  Thomas H. Greco, August 2016

• 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.

  Heloisa Primavera, November 2001

13 case studies

• Humans of Solidarity Economy

  Solidarity Economy St. Louis, October 2016

• Stroud Pound: A Local Currency to Map, Measure and Strengthen the Local Economy

  Molly Scott Cato, Marta Suárez, 2012

• 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

  CED

• The South African New Economics (SANE)

  Rajni Bakshi, September 2008

  CED

• 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

  University of East Anglia, UK

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

  2005

  BNB

• 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

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

  Peter Moers, 2000

65 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Under the flyover: Homeless people, Power of choice and the practice of authonomy through an exchange fair

  Conjunctions, Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation, vol 5, n°1

  Luciane Lucas Dos Santos, 2018

• Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons. Strategies for Transforming Neoliberal Finance Through Commons-Based Alternatives.

  David Bollier, Patrick Conaty, January 2016

• Social and Solidarity Economy: Beyond the Fringe? Introductory chapter

  Peter Utting, April 2015

  UNRISD

• Urban Agriculture as Embedded in the Social and Solidarity Economy Basel: Developing Sustainable Communities.

  Isidor Wallimann, March 2015

• Alternative Currencies

  UK Houses of Parliament. Office of Science and Technology. Postnote Number 475 August 2014

  Paul Gilbert, Caroline Kenny POST, August 2014

• The complementary currency systems: a tricky issue for economists

  2014

• Complementary currency systems questioning social and economic changes

  Marie Fare, Pépita Ould-Ahmed, 2014

• Community Development Banks: Enabling Access to Finance for Poor Communities

  Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013

  Camille Meyer, Leonardo Prates Leal, September 2013

  UNRISD

• Currencies of transition. Transforming money to unleash sustainability.

  © Chapter of « The Necessary Transition:the journeu towards the sustainable enterprise economy », Greenleaf Publishing

  Thomas H. Greco, Jem Bendell, June 2013

• Want to really help expand Social and Solidarity Economy? Then start rethinking money!

  Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013

  Christian Arnsperger, May 2013

  UNRISD

• Kenyan Businesswomen Transforming Slum Economies through Complementary Currencies

  Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013

  Morgan Richards, William O. Ruddick, May 2013

  UNRISD

• PARALLEL CURRENCIES FOR THE EUROZONE.An outline and an attempt at systemisation.

  Ludwig Schuster, March 2013

• A Preliminary Examination of Local Currencies : “Thinking Outside the Box Will Become Common, as the Box Dissolves”

  Yoshihiro Nihei, William F. O’Connor, 2013

• Complementary Currencies for Sustainable Development in Kenya: The Case of the Bangla-Pesa

  Submitted to: University of Rotterdam – ISS

  William O. Ruddick, Morgan Richards, Jem Bendell, 2013

• 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

• Sustainable Consumption During Times of Crisis. SCORAI Europe Workshop Proceedings: First Trans-Atlantic SCORAI Workshop, May 1, 2012, Bregenz, Austria. Sustainable Consumption Transitions Series, Issue 1.

  Social and solidarity based economy, what opportunities for sustainable consumption in times of crisis and beyond? Marlyne Sahakian, pp.190-206

  Sylvia Lorek, Julia Backhaus, May 2012

• Growing Green Money? Mapping Community Currencies for Sustainable Development

  Paper for SCORAI conference, June 2013

  Gill Seyfang, Noel Longhurst, May 2012

• Policies of Microcredit in Brazil : an analysis from the case of Community Development Banks (CDBs)

  Revue du MAUSS permanente, 3 mars 2012 [en ligne].

  Genauto Carvalho de França Filho, March 2012

• Energising money: An introduction to energy currencies and accounting

  Josh Ryan Collins, Ludwig Schuster, Tony Greenham, 2012

  NEF

• 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

  Institut Veblen pour les réformes économiques

• 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

  LAREPS

• Community Currency Guide

  Bernard Lietaer, Gwendolyn Hallsmith

  GCI

• Exchange networks & parallel currencies on the map of Greece: Geographical patterns and schemes’ activity

  Working paper to be presented at the International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next? February 16-17th, 2011, Lyon-France

  Irene Sotiropoulou, February 2011

• Degrowth and the supply of money in an energy-scarce world

  Ecological Economics xxx (2011) xxx–xxx. Elsevier.

  Richard Douthwaite, 2011

• “Economic activity in Greece without official currency: The terms and their economies

  in VALEONTIS, C. (ed.): Hellenic language and terminology – Communications of the 8th Conference, Hellenic Society for Terminology, Athens – Greece, pp. 203-217.

  Irene Sotiropoulou, 2011

• How environmental awareness can be practical and funny while puzzling economists: exchange networks, parallel currencies & free bazaars in Greece

  Journal of Innovation Economics, no 8 (2011/2), p. 89-117

  Irene Sotiropoulou, 2011

• 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 ISSN 1325-­‐9547

  William O. Ruddick, 2011

• Could the money system be the basis of a sufficiency economy?

  Real-World Economics Review, Issue no. 54

  Mary Mellor, 2010

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

  Janelle Orsi, 2010

  SELC

• 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

• 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

• Understanding and Reclaiming Money Creation: Our Experiences Creating the North Quabbin Timebank

  edited by the Solidarity Economy Work Group, conference proceedings from the U.S. Social Forum, pp. 139-154.

  Karen Werner, 2008

• Community Banks – Microcredit & Social Currencies The case of Brazil

  Joao Joaquim de Melo Neto Segundo, 2008

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

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

• 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

  University of East Anglia, UK

• 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

  LAREPS

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

  Stephan Hawranick Serra, March 2006

• Entrepreneurship and “Conscientious Capitalism”? Economic Solidarity Within the Banco Palmas Network.

  Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. Paper 271.

  Caroline Whistler,, 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

  NEI

• 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

• How to Build Healthy Community Economics

  A guide to the steps that can be taken to promote, create and maintain community economies.

  August 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

  LAREPS

• 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

  University of Basel, Switzlerland. Department of Economics

• 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

  NEI

One charter/manifesto

• Manifesto Human and Resources Economic system

  2011

  Ecounit

8 public contributions

• MULTIPLE MONEYS AND DEVELOPMENT: MAKING PAYMENTS IN DIVERSE ECONOMIES, 2nd International Conference on Complementary Currency Systems (CCS), The Hague, The Netherlands, 19 – 23 June 2013

  List of abstracts

  June 2013

• 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

  Erick Brenes M., 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

9 articles

• Interview with Ekaterina Dimitrova, Project Manager, Monnaie Léman, Geneva, Switzerland

  Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

  November 2023

  BIT/ILO

• SmartketPlace: after a successful first step in Geneva, ready to open for Europe

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, Februrary 2023

  Jean Rossiaud, February 2023

  RIPESS Europe, APRÈS (GE), le réseau genevois de l’économie sociale et solidaire.

• Maricá (Brazil): Social Currency Mumbuca

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, November 2022

  Basilia Orozco, Diario El Analista, Argentine, November 2022

  RIPESS Europe

• In preparation for the event “Social Economy, the future of Europe” – Strasbourg, May 2022: Mouvement Sol contribution

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - March 2022

  Constance André-Aigret, March 2022

  RIPESS Europe, SOL

• A look back at the 6th “Collectivities & Local Currencies” meeting in Lyon

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - December 2021

  RTES, December 2021

  RIPESS Europe, RTES

• The Power of Local Money for a Thriving Local Economy

  Article of Yes! Mafazine, 09/07/2021

  Jackie Brown, July 2021

• Spain: MedTOWN’s Seville Local Currency is moving forward

  MedTOWN, February 2021

• The City of Geneva supports Monnaie Léman!

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - December 2020

  Antonin Calderon, Jean Rossiaud, December 2020

  RIPESS Europe, APRÈS (GE), le réseau genevois de l’économie sociale et solidaire.

• Short on Money, Cities Around the World Try Making Their Own

  Article by CityLab, August 7, 2020

  Peter Yeung, August 2020