Money
Subtitle: understanding and creating alternatives to legal tender
By: Thomas H. Greco, Jr. ; foreword by Vicki Robin
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: White River Junction, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781890132378
Subjects: Money; Legal tender
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: Monetary Realities and Official Illusions; title: What's the Matter with Money?; title: Symptoms of Disease; title: Three Ways in Which Conventional Money Malfunctions; title: How Money Is Created; title: Sidebar: An Example of Money Creation; title: Why There Is Never Enough Money; title: How Money Is Misallocated; title: How Money Pumps Wealth from the Poor to the Rich; title: Sidebar: For Whom the Debt Tolls; title: Community Currency and the New World Order; title: Why Community Currencies?; title: The New World Order; title: Gaia Consciousness and Human Unity; title: Correcting Past Errors; title: The Power and Place of Money; title: The Power Inherent in Money; title: The Place of Money in Human Interaction; title: The Body Economic; title: What Is Money?; title: The Essential Nature of Money; title: The Exchange Process and the Purpose of Money; title: Historical Forms of Money; title: The Money Circuit; title: Bank Credit Money and the Interest Burden; title: The Disintegration of Local Economies; title: Levers of Power, Then and Now; title: The Evolution of Money; title: Social Control through Control of Money and Finance; title: Social Disintegration; title: The End of Empires; title: Money, Power, and the U.S. Constitution; title: Measuring Value and Defining the Dollar; title: The Consolidation of Money Power; title: Restoring Local Economies; title: Healthy Communities, Healthy World; title: Two Fundamental Strategies; title: Small (and Local) Is Beautiful; title: How to Bring Money under Local Control; title: Community Banking and the Liberation of Money; title: The Role of Community Currencies; title: Complementary Currencies, Past and Present; title: A Brief History of Community Currencies and Private Exchange Systems; title: Scrip of the Great Depression; title: WIR: The Swiss Wirtschaftsring; title: Legal Considerations; title: Lessons Learned; title: The Deflation Dilemma; title: Railway Notes; title: Sidebar: The "Constant" Currency of Ralph Borsodi; title: An Early Proposal for a Credit Clearing System; title: Global Finance, Inflation, and Local Currencies; title: Why Central Governments and Central Banks Don't Like Local Currencies; title: The Argentine Experience; title: New Wave Pioneers; title: Barter, Reciprocal Trade, and Mutual Credit; title: Commercial "Barter" or Trade Exchanges; title: LETS: Local Employment and Trading System; title: The Berkshire Experiments; title: Ithaca HOURS; title: Service Credits and Time Dollars; title: Update on the Pioneers; title: Recent Models and Developments; title: Tucson Traders; title: The doMAK "Barter" Circle; title: Toronto Dollars, "Money That Builds Community"; title: Friendly Favors; title: Equal Dollars (=$s); title: The Developing World Takes the Lead; title: Monetary Transformation and Community Empowerment; title: Currency Fundamentals; title: Basis of Issue; title: Regulation of the Amount of Exchange Media Supplied; title: Power to Issue; title: What Gives a Currency Credibility?; title: Forms and Devices; title: Mutual Credit: The Foundation for Community Currencies; title: What Is Mutual Credit?; title: How a Mutual Credit System Works; title: Basic Steps in Organizing a Mutual Credit System; title: Continuing Issues in Mutual Credit Systems; title: Strategies for Enhancing Mutual Credit Systems and Gaining Acceptance; title: Basic Currency Types: A Classification Scheme; title: Different Breeds of Cat: Community Currencies Are Not All Created Equal; title: Good Paper vs. Bad Paper; title: Types of Currencies; title: Sidebar: Harvey Bucks; title: A Note on Interest; title: Interest or Usury?; title: Toward Better Forms of Exchange; title: What about Charges on Credit Balances?; title: Sidebar: A Story of Robinson Crusoe; title: Medium of Exchange or Savings Medium?; title: Conflicting Roles of Money; title: Saving and Investment; title: How Do We Save?; title: Preventing Stagnation in Mutual Credit Systems; title: Current Account vs. Capital Account; title: Sidebar: Mutual Credit Loans: An Example; title: Interest Revisited; title: Basis of Issue Revisited; title: Currency Design, Improvement, and Innovation; title: Improving Local Currencies, or How to Make a Good Thing Better; title: Gift Exchange vs. Reciprocal Exchange; title: Money Is an IOU; title: Basis of Issue; title: Mutual Credit and Paper Notes; title: Essential Differences between LETS and HOURS; title: How HOURS Work; title: Fish or Fowl?; title: How Are Ithaca HOURS Issued?; title: Adding a Capital Cushion; title: Using Excess Business Capacity to Support Local Currency; title: Combined Bases of Issue; title: How to Design and Implement a Community Exchange System; title: Summary Prescription; title: Detailed Guidelines; title: A Business-Based Community Currency; title: Community Trading Coupons; title: Currency Alternatives for Impersonal Markets; title: Grain Banks and a Commodity-Based Currency; title: Comparison to Conventional Money; title: Good Money for Good Work; title: Community Service Coupons; title: Earth Rescue Receipts (ERRs); title: Sidebar: ERR Questions and Answers; title: Funded Temporary Receipts (FTRs); title: Sidebar: FTR Questions and Answers; title: Youth Employment Scrip (YES); title: The Youth Problem; title: The Money Problem; title: How Does the YES Program Work?; title: Benefits of the YES Project; title: Involving Local Businesses; title: Program Participants and Agreements; title: Sidebar: YES Questions and Answers; title: Note on Banking as a Profession, and Its Reform; title: Note on the Proper Basis of Issue for Currency, and the Means of Financing Capital Investments and Consumer Durables.