NEW The
Politics of Money – Essential Reading This is an amazing essay by E. C. Riegel with
editorial comments by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.
NEW ReinventingMoney.com. This is a new website dedicated to providing the best freedom oriented solutions to the money problem.
NEW The Money Crunch: Complementary Currency
Solutions, a major conference was held at
All conference presentations are available at http://access.dreamteamtech.com
Writings by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.
Money:
Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender by Thomas H.
Greco, Jr. Here's your link to the excerpted, e-book version (in PDF
format) of my latest book, from Chelsea Green Publishers. This is my
best, most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the subject so far.
New Money for Healthy
Communities The widely acclaimed how-to-do-it book on
community currencies and mutual credit systems, by CIRC Director, Thomas H.
Greco, Jr. Includes important concepts, pertinent history, contemporary
examples, and original ideas on how to structure community exchange systems.
This is the full text.
Money
and Debt: A Solution to the Global Crisis This is Thomas
Greco's first book about money. It
explains how and why the present monetary system is dysfunctional. Further, it
outlines a general approach to solving the crisis based on private initiative
and voluntary participation - an approach which is both liberative and
equitable, and discusses the need to segregate the various functions that money
is said to perform.
New
Money: A Creative Opportunity for Business A published
article by CIRC Director, Thomas H. Greco, Jr. Describes a private, voluntary
approach to creating a global exchange system which makes money obsolete.
This article appeared in the September, 1997 issue of Perspectives, the
journal of the
Comment
on the Wörgl Experiment with Community Currency and Demurrage
An analysis and interpretation of the well-known
1930's local currency experiment in
Community Currencies, Mutual Credit, and LETS
Appropriate Economic Systems and
Community Exchange in the Global South A good source of
information in various languages telling what is happening around the
world.
John Turmel's Listing of
Community Currency and Exchange Systems Worldwide An
amazing compilation of hundreds of connections to exchange alternatives
everywhere.
Community Currency Website
Carol Brouillet's comprehensive source for addressing economic justice,
corporate power, and community currencies.
Ithaca Money Web
page for the largest, most successful of the contemporary local currencies in
HOUR MONEY Bob Blain's website promoting time
denominated community currencies.
Local
Employment and Trading Systems (LETS) The Home Page.
A primary source for information about LETSystems and similar mutual credit
"schemes."
Project LETS List
An excellent resource for finding contacts and information on LETS, Community
Currencies, and Time Dollar systems, worldwide. Find a system near you or add
information about your own local system.
Monetary History, Theory, and Practice
Roy Davies' Money Page
An excellent source for information about monetary theory and monetary history.
60
Years WIR Business Circle Cooperative - Origins and Ideology
Describes a long successful vintage model of a credit clearing cooperative which
has been in operation since the 1930's. Extremely relevant.
E-Cash/Journal of Internet
Banking and Commerce The latest on electronic cash
and money on the internet.
The Future of Money
The changing nature of money and banking, including local currency
developments.
Money Values
Wayne Visser on the human and ecological dimensions of economics and
business.