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Community Currencies

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Community currencies are alternative monetary systems created and used within specific communities to facilitate local trade and economic exchange. They aim to strengthen local economies, enhance social cohesion, and promote sustainable practices by encouraging the circulation of value within a defined geographic or social group.
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Community currencies are alternative monetary systems created and used within specific communities to facilitate local trade and economic exchange. They aim to strengthen local economies, enhance social cohesion, and promote sustainable practices by encouraging the circulation of value within a defined geographic or social group.
Created in 1934, the WIR Bank sought to bring a monetary answer to the economic disorders of its time: its founder, Werner Zimmermann, like his inspirer Silvio Gesell, saw the transformation of the monetary institution both as a remedy to... more
Develops the theory of credit outlined in Part I, with reference to the actual history of credit systems and the pathological effects of capitalist credit systems based on artificial scarcity, and possible abundance-based postcapitalist... more
This paper explores the historical evolution of currency systems, from barter to fiat, and examines global financial challenges such as poverty, unemployment, and inflation. It proposes the idea of a unified world currency backed by gold... more
In this seminar, Dr. Samir Aita will address the dilemmas and challenges of the Syrian refugees, focusing on the regional case of Damietta .Throughout history, Egypt hosted several waves of migration from Bilad-al-Sham. They integrated... more
The alternative economies of the Ecoxarxes (eco-networks) are created by autonomous networks of like-minded groups that use social currency and mutual support practices for producing and exchanging goods, services and knowledge in the... more
This study examines Good4Trust, a Turkish online marketplace that employs a prosumer economic model using a "Trust" point system to foster a sustainable and socially just ecosystem. Prosumers earn trust points through purchases and use... more
Depuis 2014, les monnaies locales ont une reconnaissance legale en France. Mais elles n'ont pas attendu cette reconnaissance pour se diffuser en (...)
Creating the conditions for sustainable and inclusive economies at the local level is one of the main goals of subnational governments. This contribution explores the role that municipal currencies can play as care infrastructures in... more
Les monnaies locales offrent un complement precieux aux politiques publiques de la transition ecologique, a condition d’etre mobilisees dans ce sens et de s’inserer dans les circuits de financement de l’investissement ecologique et de... more
Fronts et frontières des sciences du territoire -Frontiers and boundaries of territorial sciences Marion LE TEXIER, Géographie-cités (France) France GUÉRIN-PACE, Identités et territoires des populations (France) RÉSUMÉ Depuis près d'un... more
Après lecture du Wise paper n°1, exercice de style où les enjeux historiques sont alignés et chiffrés sur 12 ans, il est désormais clair que la façon “traditionnelle” de gérer les enjeux : “1 problème → 1 solution”, portée par un ministre... more
Depuis 2014, les monnaies locales ont une reconnaissance légale en France. Mais elles n'ont pas attendu cette reconnaissance pour se diffuser en France et à l'étranger. Jérôme Blanc tire le bilan de ces expériences dont l'ampleur reste... more
Janvier 2016 Jérôme Blanc* et Baptiste Perrissin Fabert** Résumé Les monnaies locales offrent un complément précieux aux politiques publiques de la transition écologique, à condition d'être mobilisées dans ce sens et de s'insérer dans les... more
The growing interest in Complementary and Community Currencies (CCC) emerges as a response to the financial, environmental, and social challenges arising from globalization and the current economic paradigm based on linear and progressive... more
The growing interest in Complementary and Community Currencies (CCC) emerges as a response to the financial, environmental, and social challenges arising from globalization and the current economic paradigm based on linear and progressive... more
Book Review for Machines Against Measures, by Irene Sotiropoulou, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, £17.99 pbk, (ISBN: 9780755639595), 176 pp.
This special issue of the International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR) in-cludes 15 papers that their authors presented in their earlier versions at the 2nd International Conference on Complementary and Community Currency... more
Créée en 1934, la Banque WIR tentait d'apporter une réponse monétaire aux désordres économiques de son époque: son fondateur, Werner Zimmermann, comme son inspirateur Silvio Gesell, regardaient la transformation de l'institution monétaire... more
We are interested in organizations whose goals do not primarily involve profit, if it even figures at all, but which instead seek to create social capital in a wide variety of forms. Such organizations have widely varying lifetimes, but... more
This project explores Seedstock, a community currency based on the Community Way model. Seedstock founders demonstrate a commitment to advance social change using education to drive the uptake and use of a community currency. A conceptual... more
This project explores Seedstock, a community currency based on the Community Way model. Seedstock founders demonstrate a commitment to advance social change using education to drive the uptake and use of a community currency. A conceptual... more
Vers une définition mathématique de la décroissance S'il est un terme dont on entend beaucoup parler actuellement, c'est celui de la décroissance. Dans un contexte écologique de plus en plus tendu, beaucoup réclament un changement total... more
Community currencies have emerged as a tool for building more inclusive local economic development and governance. Grassroots organisations in Nairobi and Mombasa (Kenya) have been experimenting with this form of local monies. Communities... more
Time banks (TBs) have experienced significant growth in the last few years in Spain and have been incorporated in the agenda of political parties drawing the attention of national and international media as a solution to the economic... more
Over the past few years, cryptocurrencies (especially Bitcoin) have attracted a particular attention. As the number of transactions increase, these systems tend to become slower, expensive, and unsustainable for a use-case such as... more
Paper presented at the "Brussels workshop on Complementary currencies and societal challenges", 21-22- novembre 2019 The paper springs from a comparison of the pros and cons of accounting in monetary units and of measuring economic value... more