Klimawandel, überbordender Finanzkapitalismus, Globalisierung und soziale Ungleichheit – wir alle, in Deutschland und weltweit, stehen vor immensen Herausforderungen. Hartwig Schulz analysiert schonungslos Fehlentwicklungen und fordert einen Paradigmenwechsel: Statt Konkurrenz und Wettbewerb...

The humanitarian sector has gone through a major shift toward injection of cash into vulnerable communities as its core modality. On this trajectory toward direct currency injection, something new has happened: namely the empowerment of communities to create their own local currencies, a tool...

Community currencies are only sometimes economically advantageous. We focus on seasonal changes in money supply and assume that community currencies stabilize the money supply in a local community. This leads to additional transactions during seasons of insufficient supply of national currency....