http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php ccLibrary feed for books and documents on complementary currency systems Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:21:27 -0700 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:21:27 -0700 ccLibrary stephen@complementarycurrency.org http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=533 Wed, 9 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=533 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=532 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=532 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=531 Why share office space or retail space? Bartering provides a creative solution for those businesses looking to enter the market or expand.

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=531 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=530 We discuss counter trade between governments, the benefits and how it is used to speed up payments and effect delivery of needed products and services by nations

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=530 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=529 So why barter? Why should a business engage in barter exchange trade at all? this article gives some tips and advice on the topic.

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=529 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=528 Daycare centres can use barter to improve their business. Ideas, tips and hints enclosed in the pdf.

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=528 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=527 Credit management is a problem faced by many businesses. This article describes how businesses, large and small, can use barter creatively to reduce the risks of outstanding debts and speed up collection.

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=527 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=526 How much does it cost to attract a new customer? Why is barter a good idea when it comes to bring you new customers?

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=526 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=525 All too often people consider that cash = wealth. This is not the case. The attached document shows other ways one might look at wealth when using barter as a method of transaction.

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=525 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=524 A methodology for calculating the incremental profit that a barter transaction can help bring to a business.

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=524 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=523 How to calculate additional expenses incurred by entering into a barter transaction.

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=523 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=522 How billboard companies can use barter to improve their profitability

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=522 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=521 When people preach barter to businesses or individuals as a method to reduce their expenses people generally think “why”? I mean, why would they prefer to buy stuff using barter dollars than in cash? Why would somebody pay the expenses of running their business through barter dollars than the cash ones? I know because that is the first question that would come to my mind. Answers are found in the enclosed document

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=521 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=520 How to use barter to make investments in new enterprises. Some examples are included.

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=520 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=519 Every business small, medium or large scale has potential to grow. As they say ‘nothing is permanent except change’. With this in mind, why not “change” your spare time, depreciating inventory or excess capacity into real assets through the creative use of barter. Bartering may be the most ancient form of commerce however, used properly; it can create additional cash revenues for you. All you need to do is expand your horizons; think out of the box.

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=519 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=518 This article was previously not correctly uploaded to the website. I am presuming that it is okay to pass along this copy. I have not asked the author.

]]> Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=518 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=516 A formal standard specification for passive and stable currency/money that can be implemented by any group while being interoperable with any other group's implementation.

]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=516 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=515 BIBO Currency Standard Rationale

]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=515 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=514 A review of Thomas Greco's book "The End of Money and the Future of Civilization.

]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=514 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=513 Article giving overview of community currencies worldwide published in English and Portugese by Portugal's IM magazine.

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=513 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=512 Article giving overview of community currencies worldwide published in English and Portugese by Portugal's IM magazine for innovations here: http://immagazine.sapo.pt/novostempos_novasmoedaseng/

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=512 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=511 The opposition of hot and cold money is only one, although the most popular, example for such classifications. Others are “quick” and “enduring,” “allowed” and “forbidden,” and “counted” and “uncounted” money.

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=511 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=510 This paper examines one such incidence of private money creation—the issue and use of scrip, which occurred primarily in the isolated economic environments of mining and lumbering company towns during the first half of the twentieth century. Fortunately, numismatic collections and records reflect the operational character of the scrip systems in these communities so that some evaluation of their monetary properties is possible.

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=510 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=509 Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=509 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=508 The local exchange trading system represents a possible communitylevel response to the globalization of capitalism. However, few studies have examined the potential of the LETS concept in rural areas, and no studies are available of LETS in rural Scotland.

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=508 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=507 The history of prices in England begins in the thirteenth, or even the late twelfth century, from which time the data continue more or less unbroken to the present day.

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=507 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=506 In this paper, we demonstrate that it may be socially optimal for countries to have different currencies, even though they have no possibility of independently controlling their money supplies.

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=506 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=505 Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=505 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=504 Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=504 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=503 Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=503 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=502 Emerging technologies, particularly the synthesis of cryptographic software and tamper resistant smart card hardware into the electronic purse, will make the cost of entry into the currency issuing 'market' quite small.

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=502 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=501 We develop a classification scheme of systems of exchange using concepts from network analysis, economics, and cultural sociology. This classification illustrates that the “free market” is but one possible type of economy and that other types are not best understood as imperfections.

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=501 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=500 Contemporary money retains sacred meanings, as suggested in expressions such as ‘the almighty dollar’ and ‘the filthy lucre’. Drawing on ethnographic data, the authors find that the interpretation of money as either sacred or profane depends on its sources and uses and that traversing the boundaries between the sacred and the profane is possible only with attention to proper context and ritual.

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=500 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=499 Some years ago, when the Bath Local Exchange Trading Scheme (LETS) was looking for a name for their local currency, ‘Bath Olivers’ was the obvious choice. Today, the Gorbals Initiative has dubbed its time-based currency ‘Liptons’, in deference to the locally born magnate Sir Thomas Lipton. These inventive names reflect the innovative nature of the approaches. What, though, has been their impact on marginalised or excluded communities?

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=499 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=498 Local Exchange Trading Schemes (LETS) are widely promoted as a new tool for local economic development, but until recently the focus has been on their alleged ‘potential’ rather than the realities of their operation. This paper assesses the practical economic role of LETS by examining the amount of trading conducted, and demonstrates that both the volume of trading and the value of the trades are very low.

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=498 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=497 Recently, the policy community has been paying particular attention to Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS) as potential bridges into work for the unemployed. Up until now, however, there has only been piecemeal evidence on whether LETS are effective in this regard. In this paper, therefore, the full results of the Žrst comprehensive evaluation of LETS are reported.

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=497 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=496 This paper starts with a definition and review of barter and countertrade and the reasons for their growth in modern times. The author develops a classification scheme for the various forms of countertrade based on the time horizon and the degree of capital involved. In addition, he provides a conceptual framework for understanding the various forms of countertrade. He concludes by examining corporate opportunities and risks in countertrade.

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=496 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=495 Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=495 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=494 It is convenient to mention at this point the strange, unduly neglected prophet Silvio Gesell (1862-1930), whose work contains flashes of deep insight... I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx.

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=494 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=493 Why is money so inefficient in the realm of culture, and what can be done about it? How can money be made to serve culture?1 To date we have no satisfactory answers, and that is why this book has been written. The conventional wisdom is extremely negative on the subject, and sees money and culture as antitheses.

]]> Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=493 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=492 Money talks. Do our portfolios contradict or confirm what we profess? This booklet identifies 9 steps on a continuum to move money from a paradigm of domination to one of partnership, also called jubilee in the bible.

]]> Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=492 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=491 I have a statistical study on the Swiss WIR which has been circulated on the web for years, but is finally coming out in a refereed-journal: “Complementary Credit Networks and Macroeconomic Stability: Switzerland’s Wirtschaftsring,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Elsevier Publishers, forthcoming.

]]> Tue, 5 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=491 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=490 A proposal for the wider use of "target" currencies, i.e. forms of public or private money that can be used only for specific purposes. (£15/US$25)

]]> Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=490 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=458 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=458 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=435 Studio sulle monete complementari in Germania commissionato da Deutsche Bank

]]> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=435 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=432 Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=432 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=430 This paper proposes a solution for countries which are characterised by four criteria: they have no convertible currency now, and they experience three problems - potentially or actually - unemployment, inflation, and ecological degradation. The proposed strategy provides a new convertible currency - hereafter called New Currency - which constitute a powerful mechanism to tackle simultaneously these three problems.

]]> Fri, 4 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=430 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=412 6 th N-Aerus Conference – 6 ème Colloque N Aerus September 16 – 17 Septembre 2005 Housing Development & Management,Lund Institute of Technology,Lund University, Sweden -Suède

]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=412 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=411 Here is the presentation of the Merapi Mulia Credit Union and Strohalm collaboration to implement a Voucher Currency System in Daleman Village, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=411 http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=410 The social and solidarity economy are concepts that have become increasingly recognised and used in Quebec since 1995. Following the examples of certain European, as well as Latin American countries, these terms emerged in Quebec as part of a growing will and desire on the part of social movements to propose an alternative model of development, in response to the dominant neo-liberal model.

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.complementarycurrency.org/materials.php?action=view&documentId=410