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Money
understanding and creating alternatives to legal tender
by Thomas H. Greco
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Money: understanding and creating alternatives to legal tender
2001, Chelsea Green Pub.
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Table of Contents
Monetary Realities and Official Illusions
What's the Matter with Money?
Symptoms of Disease
Three Ways in Which Conventional Money Malfunctions
How Money Is Created
Sidebar: An Example of Money Creation
Why There Is Never Enough Money
How Money Is Misallocated
How Money Pumps Wealth from the Poor to the Rich
Sidebar: For Whom the Debt Tolls
Community Currency and the New World Order
Why Community Currencies?
The New World Order
Gaia Consciousness and Human Unity
Correcting Past Errors
The Power and Place of Money
The Power Inherent in Money
The Place of Money in Human Interaction
The Body Economic
What Is Money?
The Essential Nature of Money
The Exchange Process and the Purpose of Money
Historical Forms of Money
The Money Circuit
Bank Credit Money and the Interest Burden
The Disintegration of Local Economies
Levers of Power, Then and Now
The Evolution of Money
Social Control through Control of Money and Finance
Social Disintegration
The End of Empires
Money, Power, and the U.S. Constitution
Measuring Value and Defining the Dollar
The Consolidation of Money Power
Restoring Local Economies
Healthy Communities, Healthy World
Two Fundamental Strategies
Small (and Local) Is Beautiful
How to Bring Money under Local Control
Community Banking and the Liberation of Money
The Role of Community Currencies
Complementary Currencies, Past and Present
A Brief History of Community Currencies and Private Exchange Systems
Scrip of the Great Depression
WIR: The Swiss Wirtschaftsring
Legal Considerations
Lessons Learned
The Deflation Dilemma
Railway Notes
Sidebar: The "Constant" Currency of Ralph Borsodi
An Early Proposal for a Credit Clearing System
Global Finance, Inflation, and Local Currencies
Why Central Governments and Central Banks Don't Like Local Currencies
The Argentine Experience
New Wave Pioneers
Barter, Reciprocal Trade, and Mutual Credit
Commercial "Barter" or Trade Exchanges
LETS: Local Employment and Trading System
The Berkshire Experiments
Ithaca HOURS
Service Credits and Time Dollars
Update on the Pioneers
Recent Models and Developments
Tucson Traders
The doMAK "Barter" Circle
Toronto Dollars, "Money That Builds Community"
Friendly Favors
Equal Dollars (=$s)
The Developing World Takes the Lead
Monetary Transformation and Community Empowerment
Currency Fundamentals
Basis of Issue
Regulation of the Amount of Exchange Media Supplied
Power to Issue
What Gives a Currency Credibility?
Forms and Devices
Mutual Credit: The Foundation for Community Currencies
What Is Mutual Credit?
How a Mutual Credit System Works
Basic Steps in Organizing a Mutual Credit System
Continuing Issues in Mutual Credit Systems
Strategies for Enhancing Mutual Credit Systems and Gaining Acceptance
Basic Currency Types: A Classification Scheme
Different Breeds of Cat: Community Currencies Are Not All Created Equal
Good Paper vs. Bad Paper
Types of Currencies
Sidebar: Harvey Bucks
A Note on Interest
Interest or Usury?
Toward Better Forms of Exchange
What about Charges on Credit Balances?
Sidebar: A Story of Robinson Crusoe
Medium of Exchange or Savings Medium?
Conflicting Roles of Money
Saving and Investment
How Do We Save?
Preventing Stagnation in Mutual Credit Systems
Current Account vs. Capital Account
Sidebar: Mutual Credit Loans: An Example
Interest Revisited
Basis of Issue Revisited
Currency Design, Improvement, and Innovation
Improving Local Currencies, or How to Make a Good Thing Better
Gift Exchange vs. Reciprocal Exchange
Money Is an IOU
Basis of Issue
Mutual Credit and Paper Notes
Essential Differences between LETS and HOURS
How HOURS Work
Fish or Fowl?
How Are Ithaca HOURS Issued?
Adding a Capital Cushion
Using Excess Business Capacity to Support Local Currency
Combined Bases of Issue
How to Design and Implement a Community Exchange System
Summary Prescription
Detailed Guidelines
A Business-Based Community Currency
Community Trading Coupons
Currency Alternatives for Impersonal Markets
Grain Banks and a Commodity-Based Currency
Comparison to Conventional Money
Good Money for Good Work
Community Service Coupons
Earth Rescue Receipts (ERRs)
Sidebar: ERR Questions and Answers
Funded Temporary Receipts (FTRs)
Sidebar: FTR Questions and Answers
Youth Employment Scrip (YES)
The Youth Problem
The Money Problem
How Does the YES Program Work?
Benefits of the YES Project
Involving Local Businesses
Program Participants and Agreements
Sidebar: YES Questions and Answers
Note on Banking as a Profession, and Its Reform
Note on the Proper Basis of Issue for Currency, and the Means of Financing Capital Investments and Consumer Durables.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-276) and index.
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