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...

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...

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....

The financial market is based on the currency and the volume of trade between different individuals, groups, or organizations. This trade is ruled or governed by several protocols, which limits the over flooding or inappropriations in the exchange markets. One such virtual currency that is...

Depuis une douzaine d'années, on observe en France la diffusion d'un dispositif citoyen nouveau : les monnaies locales complémentaires. L'objectif de ces dernières est triple : relocaliser en partie les échanges sur leur territoire de façon à renforcer le lien social et l'économie locale...

4207 Klappentext: "Verbunden mit der Regionalentwicklung macht die Wirtschaftsförderung 4.0 die Menschen und ihren Einfallsreichtum zum Ausgangspunkt innovativer Gesellschaften und Grosser Transformationen. Wir machen Zukunft!" - Maja Göpel. Nie gab es mehr zu tun. Unsere Wirtschaft braucht...

"Buy local" arrangements encourage members of a community or group to patronize one another instead of the external economy. They range from formal mechanisms such as local currencies to informal "I'll buy from you if you buy from me" arrangements and are often championed on social or...

Dieses Büchlein erscheint in einer Reihe von Attac, einer globalisierungskritischen Nichtregierungsorganisation. Die Autoren setzen sich zum Ziel, ihren Leser*innen eine Einführung in finanztechnische Zusammenhänge zu vermitteln. Geld fassen sie dabei als gesellschaftliches Gut auf, das viele...

Geld – was ist das eigentlich? -- Arbeit versus Tätigkeit oder Beschäftigung -- Das Bedingungslose Grundeinkommen -- Aus der Geschichte lernen: Das Wunder von Wörgl -- Die Einführung des Zirkularen Grundeinkommens.

“Buy local” arrangements encourage members of a community or group to patronize one another rather than the external economy. They range from formal mechanisms such as local currencies to informal “I'll buy from you if you buy from me” arrangements, and are often championed on social or...

“Buy local” arrangements encourage members of a community or group to patronize one another rather than the external economy. They range from formal mechanisms such as local currencies to informal “I'll buy from you if you buy from me” arrangements, and are often championed on social or...

"This book focuses on a systemic study of one such soft system called the Time Bank. It provides relevant holistic background information about Time Bank which would allow a progression toward a systemic analysis. It also contains a universal Time Bank concept based on core elements."

The monetary system as an evolutionary construct / Georgina M. Gómez -- Monetary plurality in economic theory / Jérôme Blanc, Ludovic Desmedt, Laurent Le Maux, Jaime Marques-Pereira, Pepita Ould-Ahmed and Bruno Théret -- Making sense of the plurality of money : a Polanyian attempt / Jérôme...

Die integrative Philosophie des Geldes untersucht zwei fundamentale geldtheoretische Probleme aus einer (meta-)ethischen Perspektive. Das erste Problem wendet sich der Frage zu, wie Geld als theoretisches Konstrukt adäquat zu rekonstruieren ist, und untersucht einige hierauf antwortende...

Community currencies and their contribution to a sustainable development have been quite widely discussed. In contrast, their potential to raise the personal quality of life of their members and users has been less noted. Combining these two strands, we argue that community currencies enhance an...