The International Journal of Community Currency Research, founded in 1997, provides an academic/practitioner interface for 'best practice' in the development of complementary/alternative currencies. Articles are published on experiences from around the world with time banks, local exchange trading systems/schemes, barter trade and so forth.

Digital Cash and the Development of the Apolitical Currency John Michael Makoto Dykes Paper for MIT 6.805/STS085: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier, Fall 1995 There will come a further and final evolutionary stage towards a single overarching monetary system in which convertibility into legal tender ceases to be a condition for electronic money; and electronic money will thereby become indistinguishable from. . . .other, more traditional sorts of money. Money will be money ...

Electronic Money, or E-Money, and Digital Cash "The money screamed across the wires, its provenance fading in a maze of electronic transfers, which shifted it, hid it, broke it up into manageable wads which would be withdrawn and redeposited elsewhere, obliterating the trail." Nest of Vipers, a banking thriller by Linda Davies. Money was originally a physical substance like gold and silver. It could even be alive - cattle were one of the oldest forms of money. Today, although m ...

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Home | Donate | Mailing List About the Society Events Local Currencies Community Land Trusts SHARE Microcredit Training Seminars Library Publications Newsletters MANAS Journal Additional Resources Membership Contact Local Currencies Widely used in the United States in the early 1900s, local currencies are a legal, but underutilized tool for citizens to support local economies. Local currencies function on a regional scale the same way tha ...

from the pages of July/August 1995 Communities The Potential of Local Currency By Susan Meeker-Lowry People have always traded and bartered with each other. As economies became more complex, money was created as a more convenient means of exchange. In those early days, money was generally a commodity -- something valued by the people who agreed to use it. Iron nails were used as money in Scotland, dried cod in Newfoundland, sugar in some West Indies Islands, salt in ancient R ...