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= free currencies embody this fundamental and universal claim that any citizen, any community, any organization has the right to create tools for wealth to flow. No individuals, no community should be dependent on monopolistic and private currencies, unless they have decided so. [1]
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.
Human and social wealth is never reducible to its translation in money, see the Wealth Typology.
Contents
Introduction
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 marvellous presentation by Robin Upton explains how this can work.
Key distinctions: Currencies ; Free Currencies ; Wealth
For starters, read Eric Harris-Braun key argument: Why Monetary Design is Important
The following guide has all the essentials on Open Money and Complementary Currencies and is really recommended, for beginners and practitioners alike:
- Community Currency Guide. by Bernard Lietaer and Gwendolyn Hallsmith. 2006 [2]
It explains the following basics: 1) The Function of Money; 2) the Purpose of Money; Cost Recovery Mechanisms for Complementary Currencies ; Currency Issuing Procedures, and much more.
Introductory Articles
- Read this excellent introduction to the negative role of interest-based money by Charles Eisenstein
- Best current report on the topic: Creating New Money: A monetary reform for the information age. By Joseph Huber & James Robertson. New Economics Foundation
- Arthur Brock: Differences between Open Source and Open Currencies
- Kevin Carson introduces the Peer Money debates
- Michel Bauwens on the Importance of Peer Money
- Alan Rosenblith: We need P2P Architectures for Money!!
- Jean-Francois Noubel: Economics of Flow vs Economics of Accumulation
- Ellen Brown on the Case for a Public Credit System: Money today is simply credit. When the credit is advanced by a bank, when the bank is owned by the community, and when the profits return to the community, the result can be a functional, efficient, and sustainable system of finance.
Hot Projects:
- Banco Palmas, in Brazil, emits a local currency and supports the local economy. Video: The Story of Banco Palmas in Brazil
- The Common Good Bank initiative [3]
- The Swedish interest-free JAK Bank [4] [5]
- The Metacurrency Project: the tci/ip platform for diverse currency creation: see the Flowspace project as first attempt to establish sucn an infrastructure for Free Currencies
- Open Coin: an actual published open specification for creating distributed digital currency
- The creation of the Open Source Hardware Reserve Bank. Details here
- WIR Economic Circle Cooperative: this 70-old Swiss mutual credit clearing system is getting traction as a model for the rest of Europe
- The historical experience of the Worgl Shillings
See also other Open Money projects: , Bitcoin and Ripple
Goals:
- Better redistribution of the existing money
- Transformation of the monetary system through the social production of money
- Alternatives to money: Peer Production ; Gift Economy ; Sharing; and other ways to assist in a transition to a more Resource Based Economy through Peer to Peer Exchanges and P2P Exchange Infrastructure Projects
Tools:
Tools to create People-Produced Money:
- Community Forge
- Community Exchange System
- Cyclos
- Under development: OSCurrency, Cclite, [ GETS] (commercial), Ripple and Regenerosity, Local Exchange
Also:
- Comparison page at http://www.communityforge.net/compare
- Software overview page: http://www.complementarycurrency.org/software.html
Our P2P Open Money Network
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Citations
To survive and thrive, human systems *need* a not just a network view, but a multi-dimensional, multi-scaled view and definition of systems. this will help us see how many, many people can operate and multiply many forms of wealth within systems that previously seemed easily depletable. Peer networks are vital to creating the multi-dimensional maps and models and views that will allow all of us to see the cornucopia of options that now exist, provided we can shift out focus from exploitation and control, to existential symbiosis with everything that is around us, on as many scales as possible.
- Sam Rose
I think its important to distinguish "currency" from a reputation measurement. Implicit in the term currency is the idea that it can be exchanged for something.A system for "recognition" is only a currency if that recognition is exchangable for something.
- Tom Salfied
On Open Money
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?
- Open Money [10]
Money is making a fundamental evolutionary step into community currencies. Conventional money as we know it has a built in architecture that leads to scarcity, centralization, concentration, secrecy, proprietarization. This conventional monetary system is not appropriate to dealing with today's global systemic challenges (harmonizing local and global needs, creating ecological sustainability, enabling the information economy, leveraging the open source paradigm, etc). Just as there are now millions of media outlets today, currencies will follow this same evolution by shifting from centralized authoritative models to distributed ones that allow better sustainability, distribution, transparency, and regulation mechanisms.
- Open Money [11]
How to best transcend the current economic mess? Put Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Elon Musk, Tim O’Reilly, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Nathan Myhrvold, and Danny Hillis in a room somewhere and don’t let them out until they have framed a new, massively-distributed financial system, founded on sound, open, peer-to-peer principles, from the start. And don’t call it a bank. Launch a new financial medium that is as open, scale-free, universally accessible, self-improving, and non-proprietary as the Internet, and leave the 13th century behind.”
- George Dyson [12]
Depression Economics
"During periods of so-called economic depression, societies suffer for want of all manner of essential goods, yet investigation almost invariably discloses that there are plenty of goods available. Plenty of coal in the ground, corn in the fields, wool on the sheep. What is missing is not materials but an abstract unit of measurement called ‘money.’
- Tom Robbins [13]
Leakages from the local economy
"Poor liquidity and leakage (money flowing from the local economy) are key causes for floundering and/or disappearing regional economies. To overcome these shortfalls local communities should be increasing local liquidity and plugging the leakage through the introduction of complementary community currencies thereby re-building their respective local communities in the coal mining area of Wales. When local residents within their respective communities changed the agreements they had about conventional money, by creating and spending complementary community currencies locally instead of spending only diminishing amounts of federal currency with giant corporations, it commenced re-birth in the local communities. Molly used the term local multiplier when she discussed how local liquidity increased proportionately to the amount of complementary community currency being circulated by those who were choosing to participate."
- (from a summary of) Molly Scott reporting on complementary currencies in Wales [14]
Aristotle on unnatural wealth
"There are two sorts of wealth-getting, as I have said; one is a part of household management, the other is retail trade: the former necessary and honorable, while that which consists in exchange is justly censured; for it is unnatural, and a mode by which men gain from one another. The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural."
- Aristotle [15]
Introductory Material
- Money is not the Only Value Measurement System . By Geoff Chesshire begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
- Why Peer to Peer Currencies will Grow
- Bernard Lietaer: The Four-tiered Monetary System of the Future
- In his landmark essay, Valuing the Ethical Economy, Adam Arvidsson explains why we need Wealth Acknowledgment Systems for the Ethical Circuit of Value
- Must reading: Charles Eisenstein on Why Demurrage needs to replace interest (see the entry on Demurrage). Also: Money and the Crisis of Civilization on why the current crisis is also an endgame.
- The case for open money. See also: Open Money Manifesto]
- Ran Prieur: Fire vs. Water Economies, and the role of Demurrage in this tradition.
- Essential theoretical and historical introduction to the long term history of money and debt, as rooted in social violence, by David Graeber at http://www.metamute.org/en/content/debt_the_first_five_thousand_years
- Eric Harris-Braun on the necessary Difference between Multi-currency Platforms and Market Making Platforms
- Thomas Greco: Why Exchange Alternatives Fail to Thrive
- Robin Wood: Shifts in Value Exchange and Human Development: applying the spiral dynamics model to value exchange
- The three modalities of Production Sharing, i.e. working together for a common pool, without individual exchange or barter: 1) Labor Quota System; 2) Fair-Share Labor System; 3) Anti-Quota Labor System
- Why Matrifocal Societies Use Dual Currencies. Bernard Lietaer. [16]
- Steve Keen on Why We Need to Tackle Debt Pushing, not Money Creation
Also:
- Rationale for Monetary Reform by Greg Martin.
- Monetary Transformation, not Monetary Reform, is What is Needed. By Thomas Greco.
- Why the Growth Imperative is Linked to our Monetary Format
- Declaration Of The Universal Right Of Monetary Creation and the Open Money Manifesto
- Peter Koenig's summaries on the History and Future of money
- The Future of Money by Paul B. Hartzog
- Capital, Profits, and Interest. Benjamin Tucker.
- Chris Cook: a proposal for Open Capital
How-to:
- Process of Designing a Complementary Currency System. How-to recommendations by Stephen DeMeulenaere.
Discussions
Via: http://groups.google.com/group/metacurrency
Key Resources
Funding for Open Money and Complementary Currencies infrastructures via: the Fund for Complementary Currencies
- The Re-Inventing Money site, at http://reinventingmoney.com/
- The Book: "Money; A Mirror Image Of The Economy" by Dr. J.W. Smith - full text at http://IED.info/books/money Applying Henry George’s philosophy across the economic spectrum transposes monopoly rent values into equally-shared use-values. Quality of life increases as working hours drop by half.
- The consultancy: Value for People, helps local communities initiate complementary currencies
Key Blogs
Of key importance is the work by Eric Harris-Braun and friends on meta-currency platforms, see here
Also:
- New Currency Frontiers: very thoughtful new money blog with Eric Harris-Braun and others working on the Metacurrency Project
- Beyond Money: Thomas Greco's blog on monetary transformation and mutual credit
- Evolution of Money
- Open Source Currency
- Coverage of social money trends in Guillaume's blog
- Trust is the only currency: excellent analysis
Key Books
- Future of Money. Bernard Lietaer.
- Thomas Greco. The End of Money and the Future of Civilization. Chelsea Green, 2009
- Money and Liberation. The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements. Peter North. University of Minnesota Press, 2008
- Interest and Inflation Free Money. Margrit Kennedy.
- Peter North: Money and Liberation: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements. [17]
- Creating New Money: A Monetary Reform for the Information Age, by Joseph Huber and James Robertson. New Economics Foundation (2001) [18]
- The Ecology of Money. By Richard Douthwait
Guidebooks:
- Community Currency Guide. Workbook by Bernard Lietaer
Also:
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
- Four conditions for Open Money: Open Data Currencies ; Open Identity Currencies ; Open Rules Currencies ; Open Transport Currencies
- Wealth Typology,Because we need Wealth Acknowledgment Systems for the Ethical Circuit of Value
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 Directories
- Online Database of Complementary Currencies Worldwide
- Global Resource Exchange Groups and Localized Exchange Communities
- Peer to Peer Exchanges and P2P Exchange Infrastructure Projects
Key Documentaries
- The Money Fix: video by Alan Rosenblith shown at PBS stations in the U.S. in 2009/2010 [19]
- Money as Debt
- The Wealth of Neighbors
- The Money Masters
- In Debt We Trust, remarkable documentary about personal aspects of debt crisis
Key Essays
- Peer to Peer Lending, June 2007 overview report by Brad Slavin.
- Raoul Victor: Money and Peer Production, a marxist perspective
Bernard Lietaer
- The Future of Payment Systems. By Bernard Lietaer.
Two key essays/proposals by Bernard Lietaer et al:
- Is Our Monetary Structure a Systemic Cause for Financial Instability? Evidence and Remedies from Nature. By Bernard Lietaer, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Sally J. Goerner, and Nadia McLaren. Accepted for publication in Journal of Futures Studies Special Issue on the Financial Crisis (February-March 2010)
- Options for Managing a Systemic Bank Crisis. Bernard Lietaer, Dr. Robert Ulanowicz, and Dr. Sally Goerner. Sapiens-journal Volume 2, number 1, March 2009
"The sustainability of any complex flow system can be measured with a single metric as an emergent property of its structural diversity and interconnectivity; it requires a balance in emphasis between efficiency and resilience. The urgent message for economics from nature is that the monoculture of national currencies, justified on the basis of market efficiency, generates structural instability in our global financial system. Economic sustainability therefore requires diversification in types of currencies, specifically through complementary currencies."
Thomas Greco
- Thomas Greco: Why Exchange Alternatives Fail to Thrive: The State of the Alternative Exchange Movement, Excerpt from The End of Money and the Future of Civilization, Chapter 13,
- Thomas Greco: Towards A Complete Web-Based Trading Platform Excerpt, End of Money, Chapter 17,
Key People
- Alan Rosenblith ;
- Arthur Brock [20] ;
- Edgar Cahn [21];
- Eric Harris-Braun [22];
- Thomas Greco ;
- Margrit Kennedy
- Jean-François Noubel [23]
Key Podcasts
Key Webcasts
Documentaries:
- Money as Debt II: great explanation
- Introductory Animation to Complementary Currencies
Also:
- Alan Rosenblith on Open Money ; Alan Rosenblith on Open Money Protocols and Agreements
- Chris Cook on Peak Credit and Open Capital: excellent video presentation
- Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun's Introduction to The MetaCurrency Project ; Arthur Brock on Open Data Currencies
- Bernard Lietaer Interviewed on a New World Currency ; Bernard Lietaer on Complementary Currencies for Social Change ; Bernard Lietaer on Currencies for Cooperation ; Bernard Lietaer on Human Wealth
- Christian Nold on the Bijlmer Euro
- David Karsbol on Virtual Finance
- David Korten on Monetary Reform
- Douglas Rushkoff on Medieval Money
- Ellen Brown on the Web of Debt
- Giles Andrews on the Evolution of the Zopa Social Lending Project
- James Robertson on Monetary Reform for the Mainstream Economy
- Jean-François Noubel on Free Currencies
- Mohammad Yunus on Microfinance
- Peter Koenig on What is Money
- Philippe Van Parijs on the Basic Income
- Richard Douthwaite on Debt-based Money
- Sarah Hearn on the Berkshare Local Currency Program
- Thomas Greco on Monetary Transformation ; Thomas Greco on the End of Money ; Thomas Greco on the Importance of Mutual Credit Clearing ; Thomas Greco on the State of the Monetary Reform Movement
See also:
- Extensive collection of Videos on complementary currencies. More videos on the Network Economy YouTube channel
Deutschsprachige Ressourcen - German Ressources
Pages in category "Money"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,488 total.
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- About Money
- Abundance vs. Scarcity
- Abundance-Based Money
- Accorderie
- Accumulating Savings and Credit Association
- Adrian Wrigley on Land-Based Money
- Adrianne Jeffries on the Early Travails of Bitcoin
- Agonistic Giving
- Agorist Radio's Cypherpunkd Podcast Interview Series
- Al Jazeera's The Stream on Protest Currencies
- Alan Rosenblith
- Alan Rosenblith on Open Money
- Alan Rosenblith on Open Money Protocols and Agreements
- Alanna Irving on Tools for Radical Financial Collaboration
- Alaska Permanent Fund
- Alessio Bini
- Alex Wied on Regional Looms and Digital Online Asset Trading Systems
- Alexander Douglas on the Philosophy Of Debt
- Algorithmic Central Bank
- Alice Maggio on BerkShares
- Aligning Cryptocurrency Incentives To Finance Positive Externalities
- All Street
- Altcoins
- Alternative Banking Working Group - OWS
- Alternative Currencies
- Alternative Currencies and Community Development in Argentina
- Alternative Economic Systems in Asia
- Alternative Finance Festival
- Alternative Trading Systems
- Amir Taaki on Bitcoin
- Amy Kirschner on the Vermont Sustainable Exchange
- Anatomy of a Money-Like Informational Commodity
- Andreas Antonopoulos on the Importance of the Bitcoin Protocol
- Andreas Antonopoulos on the Power of the Bitcoin Protocol, Not the Currency
- Andrés Bernal on the Modern Money Movement
- Andy Jordan on the Coming Currency Revolution
- Andy Jordan Reports on the Berkshare
- Ann Pettfor on Financing the Green Transition
- Anonymous Digitally Signed General Ledger and Trading System
- Anonymous Internet Banking
- Anti-Quota Labor System
- App Coins
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the Basic Income
- Arguments for Demurrage-Based Post-Growth Currencies
- Art Brock and Ferananda Ibarra on Currencies
- Art Brock on the MetaCurrency Living Systems Model
- Art Brock, Michael Linton, Michel Bauwens, and Matthew Slater on Currencies and the Credit Commons
- Arthur Brock
- Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun on the Metacurrency Project
- Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun on the Principles of the Holochain Infrastructure
- Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun's Introduction to The MetaCurrency Project
- Arthur Brock on Open Data Currencies
- Artificial Scarcity
- User:Asolache
- Assurance Contract
- Asymmetric Accounting
- Asymmetric Gift Accounting
- Attention Economy
- Attitudes to Usury - History
- Auroracoin
- Australian Dollar Is Not Fit For Purpose
- Automatic Boost Act
- Autopsy of an Island Currency
B
- Banco Bem
- Banco Palmas
- Bank Bail-Ins
- Bank Debt
- Bank of Happiness - Estonia
- Bank of Joy
- Bank of North Dakota Model
- Bank of the Commons
- Bank of the Commons Cooperative
- Bank of the Future
- Bankful Society
- Banking
- Banking Without Banks
- Banks of Piety
- BankSimple
- Barter
- Barter Networks
- Barter Trade
- Basic Income
- Basis
- Ben Dyson and Andrew Jackson on Positive Money Reform
- Ben Dyson on How Money is Created and How Banking Works
- Ben Dyson on Positive Monetary Reform
- Ben Dyson on Positive Money
- Bengla-Pesas
- Berg Rand
- Berkshares
- Bernard Lietaer
- Bernard Lietaer Interviewed on a New World Currency
- Bernard Lietaer On Bitcoin
- Bernard Lietaer on Complementary Currencies for Social Change
- Bernard Lietaer on Currencies for Cooperation
- Bernard Lietaer on Human Wealth
- Bernard Lietaer on Monetary Democracy
- Bernard Lietaer on Money and Sustainability
- Bernard Lietaer on New Money for a New World
- Bernard Lietaer on Reinventing the Financial System
- Bernard Lietaer on the Current Crisis and a Resilient Financial System
- Bernard Lietaer on the Future of Money
- Bernard Lietaer on Transforming the Financial System
- Beyond Money
- Bia Kud Chum Community Currency System - Thailand
- BIBO Currency Standard
- BIEN
- Bill Mitchell on Modern Monetary Theory
- Bill St. Claire on the Truledger Anonymous Digitally Signed General Ledger and Trading System
- Binary Economics
- Bioecon
- Biophysical Economic Theory
- Biracy Project
- Bit Gold
- Bitbills
- Bitbond
- Bitcoin
- Bitcoin - Business Aspects
- Bitcoin - Discussion
- Bitcoin Alternatives
- Bitcoin and the State
- Bitcoin as Distributed Right-Wing Extremism
- Bitcoin ATM
- Bitcoin Cannot Serve the Necessary Function of Networked Public Money
- Bitcoin Card
- Bitcoin Center Korea
- Bitcoin Experience
- Bitcoin Financial Regulation
- Bitcoin Foundation
- Bitcoin OTC Web of Trust
- Bitcoin Protocol
- Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- Bitcoin Startups
- BitCongress Foundation
- BitInstant Bitcoin Economy
- BitPAC
- Bittunes
- Blended Value
- Blind Bitcoin
- Blockades
- Blockchain
- Blockchain and Value Systems in the Sharing Economy
- Blockchain-Based Decentralized Financial Systems
- Booster Currency
- Bottom-Up Financial Institutions
- Boya
- Brakteaten Money
- Brazilian Local Development Community Banks
- Brett Scott
- Brett Scott on Gold, Crypto-Gold and Money
- Brett Scott on Open Source Finance
- Brett Scott on Open Sourcing Finance
- Brett Scott on the Future of Money
- Brixton Pound
- Buddhist Economics
- Building Society
- Building the Burning Man Bank
- BUXB
C
- Camille Meyer
- Camilo Ramada on Complementary Currency from Brazil and Uruguay
- Canadian Community Investment Network Co-operative
- Capital College
- Capital Commons Trusts
- Capital Partnership
- Capitalist Collective
- Carbon Pool
- Care Money vs Creativity Money
- Caring Relationship Tickets
- Cascadia Commons
- Cash Mobs
- Cashwiki
- Cclite
- Certificate Course in Community Currencies for Grassroots Development
- Chama
- Chamapesa
- Charles Eisenstein
- Charles Eisenstein and Chris Lindstrom on the New Myth of Money
- Charles Eisenstein on Living in the Gift and the Money Economy
- Charles Eisenstein on Re-Envisioning Money
- Charles Eisenstein on the Ascent of Humanity
- Charles Eisenstein on the Spirituality of Money
- Charles Eistenstein on Sacred Economics
- Chartalism
- Chicago Plan for Monetary Reform
- Chicago Plan for Money Creation
- Chiemgauer
- Christian Gelleri Explains the Chiemgauer
- Christian Nold on the Bijlmer Euro
- Cipherspace
- Circles
- Circular Exchange Trading System
- Circular Multilateral Barter
- Circulation Charge
- Citizen Central Banking
- Citizen Ownership
Media in category "Money"
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- CCIA book People Powered Money.pdf ; 4.21 MB