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100 1 $aGreco, Thomas H.,$d1936-
245 10 $aMoney :$bunderstanding and creating alternatives to legal tender /$cThomas H. Greco, Jr. ; foreword by Vicki Robin.
260 $aWhite River Junction, Vt. :$bChelsea Green Pub.,$cc2001.
300 $axxiv, 295 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [274]-276) and index.
505 0 $aMonetary 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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