This section's theme are generally the monetary aspects of P2P trends, and more specifically, aspects of monetary reform, that aim to make the monetary system into a participatory resource that more broadly benefits larger sectors of the world population.

The P2P Foundation supports the direct social production of money, such as for example through Open Money and other P2P Exchange Infrastructure Projects systems.

This page will be maintained by Michel Bauwens and Greg Martin.

Contact email: Greg is at epoch at mailshack dot com

Citation

"You treasure what you measure, and you measure what you treasure. Open money provides the tools to implement this maxim. What should we be treasuring in our culture and on our planet that we so far have no way to measure?" (http://openmoney.info/sophia/index.html)

Introductions

1. Why Peer to Peer Currencies will Grow
2. Rationale for Monetary Reform by Greg Martin.
3. Monetary Transformation, not Monetary Reform, is What is Needed. By Thomas Greco.
4. Why the Growth Imperative is Linked to our Monetary Format
5. Declaration Of The Universal Right Of Monetary Creation and the Open Money Manifesto
6. Peter Koenig's summaries on the History and Future of money

Key Resources

1. The Re-Inventing Money site, at http://reinventingmoney.com/
2. The video: Money as Debt

Key Books

1. Future of Money
2. Money and Magic
3. Money in an Unequal World
4. Monetary Theory
5. 30 Lies about Money

Key Concept Pages to read

Abundance vs. Scarcity and Monetary Scarcity vs. Monetary Sufficiency - Non-scarcity based monetary systems

Monetary Reform, Demurrage and Seigneurage, the Credit Commons

Wealth Typology and Wealth Acknowledgment Systems

Also read our more general page on Peer Property

Key Delicious Tags

Abundance, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Abundance

Complementary Currencies, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Complementary-Currencies

Monetary Reform, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Monetary-Reform

Open Money, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Open-Money

P2P Money, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Money

Key Essays

The Future of Payment Systems. By Bernard Lietaer.