Money and liberation : the micropolitics of alternative currency movements

Peter North

Money and Liberation examines the experiences of groups who have tried to build a more equitable world by inventing new forms of money. Presenting profiles of the trading networks that have been constructed, including Local Exchange Trading Schemes (England), and Green Dollars (New Zealand), Peter North shows how the use of currency has been redefined as part of political action

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Year of publication:	c2007
Authors:	North, Peter
Publisher:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
Subject:	Alternative Ökonomie \| Alternative economy \| Freiwirtschaft \| Theorie \| Theory
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (xxix, 202 p) 24 cm
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Thinking Economies Otherwise; 1. Beyond the Veil? Money and Economies; 2. The Politics of Monetary Contestation; 3. Utopians, Anarchists, and Populists: The Politics of Money in the Nineteenth Century; 4. Twentieth-Century Utopians: Gesell and Douglas; 5. New Money, New Work? LETS in the United Kingdom; 6. Kaláka and Kör: Green Money, Mutual Aid, and Transition in Hungary; 7. The Longevity of Alternative Economic Practices: Green Dollars in Aotearoa/New Zealand; 8. Surviving Financial Meltdown: Argentina's Barter Networks Conclusion: The Ghosts of Marx and Simmel?Notes; Bibliography; Index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	978-0-8166-4963-1 ; 978-0-8166-4962-4 ; 978-0-8166-4962-4
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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