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Introduction

Introduction to Community Exchange Systems

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Understanding Money, the Economy and CCS

Various Authors

Introduction to Appropriate Economics

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Ancient History

Reconstructing the Origins of Interest-Bearing Debt

Michael Hudson

The Early Evolution of Interest-Bearing Debt

Michael Hudson

The Mathematical Economics of Compound Interest
Part One | Part Two

Michael Hudson

How Interest Rates Were Set: 2500BC - 1000AD

Michael Hudson

From Sacred Enclave to Temple to City

Michael Hudson

Did the Phoenicians Introduce the Idea of Interest to Greece and Italy -and if so When?

Michael Hudson

A Pictorial History of Community Currency Systems

Stephen DeMeulenaere

A Brief History of Interest

Stephen Zarlenga

Accounting From the Ancient World to the Enlightenment

Gary Giroux

Traditional Currency & Exchange Systems

The Original Affluent Society

Marshall Sahlins

The New Traditional Economy

Rosser & Rosser

Economic Organizations and Local Cultures

Thierry G. Verhelst

Sustaining Cultural Vitality in a Globalizing World

DeMeulenaere & Lietaer

Revaluing Uang Kepeng as a Medium of Local Exchange in Bali

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Famous Myths of "Fiat Money"

Dror Goldberg

Money & Monetary Issues

Balancing the Power of Money

Menno Salverda

Our Money

James Robertson

Money: A Medium of Exchange

Robert Mittelstaedt

User Currencies

Camilo Ramada

Stamp Scrip E-Book (Click Here for Zip File)

Irving Fisher

Inflation and Interest-Free Money E-Book (Click for Zip)

Margrit Kennedy

The Natural Economic Order E-Book (Click for Zip)

Silvio Gesell

E-Barter vs. Fiat Money: Will Central Banks Survive?

Capie, Tsomocos, Wood

Poor Because of Money E-Book

Strohalm Foundation

Money and its Alternatives E-Book

Strohalm Foundation

A Changing Money System: The Economy of Ecology

Margrit Kennedy

Community Currency Systems

Taking Back the Middle for Local Economies

Jules Pretty

Understanding Money, the Economy and CCS

Various Authors

Community Currencies: A New Tool for the 21st Century

Bernard Lietaer

On LETS

Makoto Nishibe

Monetizing Social Exchange

Canice Prendergast

New Strategies for Structuring Society from a Cash-Flow Paradigm

Shann Turnbull

Understanding the Advantages of a CCS

Jerry-Jo Idarus

Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender E-book

Thomas Greco

Local Currency as a Development Strategy

Jayaraman & Oak

Local Currencies: Catalysts for Sustainable Regional Economies

Swann & Witt

Rationales for Complementary Currencies In A Global Economy

Gill Seyfang

Community Currency and Local Self-sufficiency : Bia Kud Chum

Pipob Udomittipong

New Money for Healthy Communities. E-Book

Thomas Greco

Community Currencies:Alternative Development at the Juncture of Feminism and Associationalism

Jeff Powell

Alternative Money for Local Development

Jurgen Schuldt

LETSystems Provide a Solution to Third World Poverty

Philip Carter

Mexico & Thailand: Community Currency Systems

Lopezllera & Salverda

Community Currency Systems and Credit Unions

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Wir and Barter

Ezio Valentini

Reciprocal Exchange Networks and Macroeconomic Stability

James Stodder

Review of Reciprocal Exchange Networks and Macroeconomic Stability

WIRplus Magazine

Alternative Currencies and Community Development

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Community Currency in the United States

Ed Collom

Complementary Currencies for Social Change

Nexus Magazine

In Search of a Communal Economic Subject

Dr. Hui Po-Keung

Fair Exchange: Barter and Commercial Exchange

Tamar Satov

Time Banks: Rewarding Community Self-Help in the Inner City?

Dr. Gill Seyfang

Bartering for a Better Future?

Dr. Gill Seyfang

Time Banks and Active Citizenship

Dr. Gill Seyfang

The Time of our Lives

Dr. Gill Seyfang

Socio-Economic Solidarity

The Dynamics of Trust and Exclusion in Networks

Bowles & Gintis

Evaluating LETS as a Tool for Tackling Social Exclusion

ESRC

Affinity as Social Capital: Its Role in Development

A. Allan Schmid

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution E-book

Peter Kropotkin

A Future for the Excluded? Learning from Brazil

Raff Carmen

Monetizing Social Exchange

Canice Prendergast

On The Viability of Gift Exchange in a Market Environment

Klundert & van de Ven

Social Capital, Inclusive Networks and Economic Performance

Kurt Annen

The Stability & Efficiency of Social and Economic Networks

Matthew Jackson

Building a World Economic Structure Where People Matter

Jeff Powell

Third-World Economic Development

Off the Hook: How Microcredit and Community Currency Systems Work

Stephen DeMeulenaere

The Holy Cow of Microcredit

John Samuel

Informal Finance and the Design of Micro Finance

Mark Schreiner

Sustainable Development and Poverty Alleviation

Anantha K. Duraiappah

Innovative Initiatives for Welfare

Ton Brunsveld

Uniting Microcredit and Community Currency

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Past, Post and Future Development

Seyfang & Pearson

A Future for the Excluded? Learning from Brazil

Raff Carmen

Income-Generation Strategies in a Globalizing World

Ruth Pearson

Affinity as Social Capital: Its Role in Development

A. Allan Schmid

Economics & Enterprise

On The Viability of Gift Exchange in a Market Environment

Klundert & van de Ven

Circuits of Commerce

Viviana A. Zelizer

Introduction to Clusters of Firms in Developing Countries

Anonymous

The Dynamics of Trust and Exclusion in Networks

Bowles & Gintis

On the History of the Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange

Avner Greif

On the Local Interaction of Money and Credit

Yi Jin

Networks and Markets

Rauch & Hamilton

On Monetizing a Barter Economy

Alexei Birulin

A Theory of Buyer-Seller Networks

Kranton & Minehart

Relationships and Traders in Madagascar

Fafchamps & Minten

Risk-Sharing and Quasi-Credit

Marcel Fafchamps

Simple and Complex Gift Exchange in the Laboratory

Eline van der Heijden

Social Approval as a Motivation to Give

Jeroen van de Ven

Social Capital and the Firm: Evidence from Agricultural Trade

Fafchamps & Minten

Social Capital, Inclusive Networks and Economic Performance

Kurt Annen

Returns to Social Network Capital Among Traders

Fafchamps & Minten

The Stability & Efficiency of Social and Economic Networks

Matthew Jackson

Trust and Reciprocity: An International Experiment

Nancy Buchan

Land Lease Without Land Lords

Shann Turnbull

Dual-Currency Economies as Multiple-Payment Systems

Craig and Waller

Ecuador's dollarization: the good, the bad and the ugly

Salvador Marconi R.

Consumer Works ! Civil Action for Human Development

NEF

Attractors Versus Virtual Money

Krzysztof Lewandowski

Democratizing the Wealth of Nations

Shann Turnbull

Flight From Inflation E-Book

E.C. Riegel

The New Approach to Freedom (Entire Pamphlet)

E.C. Riegel

Household Production and the Household Economy

Duncan Ironmonger

Money: Bona Fide or Non-Bona Fide E-Book

Dr. Edward E. Popp

The Great Cookie Jar E-book

Dr. Edward E. Popp

Financial Crisis in Emerging Markets

Chang & Velasco

The Economics of the Gift

Jeroen van de Ven

In Whose Interest ?

Mark Kinney

Sharing Nicely: On The Emergence of Sharing as a Modality of Economic Production

Yochai Benkler

Globalization & International Trade

Free Trade as a Sport

Walter Plinge

Building a World Economic Structure Where People Matter

Jeff Powell

Globalization, Money & Trade

Thomas Greco

Free Trade and Fiat Money Fun

Walter Plinge

In the Wake of Homo Oeconomicus: HOMO MUNDIALIS?

Raff Carmen

Globalization: A Further Compendium of Views

World Aware

When Poverty Comes With Globalization: How Does Community Currency Empower Individuals?

Shum Hoi Ying

Religion & Economics

Buddhist Economics

E.F. Schumacher

Forging the Divine Economy

Justin Scoggin

The Economic Ethics of Buddhism

Gregory K. Ornatowski

The Islamic View of LETS and Community Currencies

Islamic Party of Britain

The New Islamic Dinar

Boudewijn Wegerif

Religious Prohibitions Against Usury

Clyde Reed

People-Friendly Economic Development: Intro to Buddhist Economics

J.W. Wickramasinghe

Stories & Science Fiction About Alternative Currencies

Silvio Gesell's 'Robinson Crusoe', a cartoon in English
(Click for Zip)

GRSJ

And Then There Were None

Eric Frank Russell

Robinson Crusoe A Dialogue

Silvio Gesell

Community Currency Research

A Snapshot of Community Currencies in North America and Europe

Powell & Salverda

An Overview of Parallel, Local and Community Currency Systems

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Community Currencies: A Cooperative Option for the Developing World?

Peter Moers

Study of the Tianguis Tlaloc Local Currency System In Mexico

Lopezllera & DeMeulenaere

Doole: The Force of Union

Dakar SEC

Evaluating LETS as a Tool for Tackling Social Exclusion

ESRC

CCS Field Research Project

YAPPIKA - CBSED

Research Program on Monetary Dynamics

Strohalm Foundation

Community Economic Mapping

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Community Currency Systems in Asia Research Report

AMIC

Working for the Fenland Dollar:An Evaluation of LETS as an Informal Employment Strategy

Dr. Gill Seyfang

Education & Training

Community Currency Role Play

Salverda & Powell

Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) Tools

Various Authors

Thailand CCS PLA Tools

Salverda & Powell

Local Currency Implementation

Draft Community Currency System Design

Ngatidjo & DeMeulenaere

Managing a Mutual Credit Community Currency System

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Designing a Community Currency Note

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Cereal Banks: Certificates of Deposit for Increasing Liquidity at the Rural Level

Peter Moers

How to Start an RGT Exchange System

Heloisa Primavera

Designing a Community Coupon Currency System

Powell & Salverda

Doole, The Force of Union

Dakar SEC

Manual for operating free Mlets software

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Site to Download free Mlets Software

Follow Internet Link

The multiLETS Registry

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Legal Issues concerning the issuance of community currency in Indonesia

ICCS

The Community Economic Complex

Moers & DeMeulenaere

Marketplace Currency System

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Community Cooperation System

Stephen DeMeulenaere

Time-Based Accounting System

Stephen DeMeulenaere

A Free Program to Design and Print Currency

www.abc-ware.com

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Self-Help Education

Silvano Borruso

2004