Money

• Money
  • Key Introductory Reading:
  • Key MoneyDownloads?:
  • Key MoneyLinks:
  • Further Reading:
  • MoneyBooks?
  • MoneyQuotes

Money is

• A Tool. Money doesn't actually do anything. It is a tool used by communities to make exchanges within them easier.
• An Information System. Money is the information system that we use to deploy human effort. Is it where it is needed? Clearly not.
• An Agreement. Money is an agreement, between a community, to use something as a means of exchange. This agreement can be freely chosen or coerced, implicit or explicit.

Step One: That there be open, regular and public acknowledgement by state, economists and academia that the present banking system is an unjust monopoly that creates 97% of the money supply as interest-bearing debt.

Key Introductory Reading:

Read these now!

- MoneyToday - by Josef Davies-Coates

- OpenMoneyManifesto - by MichaelLinton

- BriefHistoryOfMoney - by Josef Davies-Coates

- WhatIsMoney - by TomGreco?

- WhatIsTheMatterWithMoney - by TomGreco?

- GripOfDeath - by MichaelRowbotham?

- MoneyDebtAndBanks - by RichardGreeves?, Dr. JohnCourtneidge? and DavidSoori?

- DraftMoneyManifesto - by TomGreco?

- WhyLondonNeedsItsOwnCurrency? - by DavidBoyle?

- TimeBanks

- QualityQuids - by Josef Davies-Coates and TomSalfield

- Interest and Inflation Free Money by MargritKennedy?

Key MoneyDownloads?:

Download and read now!

- The uniteddiversity money_guide.pdf (new version coming soon)

- TomGreco?'s money_e_book.pdf

- MargritKennedy?'s a changing money system.pdf

- MIA Progress Report.pdf from the Monetary Inquiry Association

Key MoneyLinks:

There are loads of good sites about the money issue out there:

- ReinventingMoney.com - TomGreco?'s site

- OpenMoney.org - MichaelLinton

- The Memory Bank - KeithHart?

- Transaction.net - BernardLietaer

- TerraTRC - The Terra Trade Reference Currency

- ACCESS Foundation - Alliance of Complementary Currencies Enabling Sustainable Societies

- Funny Money - DavidBoyle?'s site

- MargritKennedy?'s website (English version)

- Campaign for Interest Free Money - JohnCourtneidge?

- TheTransitioner.org - Collective Intelligence Economy.

- Monetary Inquiry Association - a new way of questioning money

- Open-Economy.org - lots of good stuff, but in Italian.

- LETSystems - The original LETS site

- Time Banks UK

- London Time Bank

- Time Dollar Institute

- LETSlink UK

- LETSlink Scotland

- LETSlink London

- Forum for Stable Currencies

- Christian Council for Monetary Justice

- American Monetary Institute

- Ithaca Hours

- Salt Spring Island Dollars

- Toronto Dollar

- Living Economies, formerly the Stable Money Trust (New Zealand)

- Social Money

- Project LETS list

- Appropiate Economics - Community Exchange, Community Currencies

- Strohalm Netherlands (English site)

- Via3.net

- OPTIMAES - Open Project To Investigate Money And Economic Systems

- International Journal of Community Currency Research

- A Collection of New Money Systems and Financial Innovations from the Global Ideas Banks

- EF Schumacher Society pages on Local Currency

- JamesTaris?'s LETS linkup site

- Music MELTS - Music TimeBank? in Bristol

- ECON-LETS mailing list

Further Reading:

More online reading...

- Money founding documents from TheTransitioner.org

- New Money for Healthy Communities (Complete book)

- Interest and Inflation Free Money by MargritKennedy?

- Lot of links to stuff about "Community Currencies"http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/

- RoyDavies?'s excellent site about Local Currencies etc. has loads of good links

- More texts on Monetary Reform from MargritKennedy?'s site

- Via Flemming Funch Ruling the world of money

MoneyBooks?

Read more about money in these excellent books:

"Money: Where it came from, whence it went" - JohnKennethGalbraith?, 1975, has best analysis of history of BrettonWoods? and the rise of the USDollar? as the global reference currency. Very readable and detailed.

MoneyQuotes

Things people have said about money...

See also:

- MoneyQuotes

- MoneyBooks?

- MoneyLinks

- MonetaryReform

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Thomas Greco's MONEY - Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender is an excellent introduction to the issues around monetary reform. This book is so clearly written that it almost makes this, most complicated of subjects, appear simple. I think many seasoned monetary reformers could benefit from reading this book, but if your just interested as a beginner its also excellent. All the important questions are answered: What is wrong with our current money systems? What are the systems would we better? How can we go about getting there. I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in how money really works.

Enjoy, TomSalfield

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Hear, hear! The current state of awareness of the above three authorities amounts to a conspiracy of silence. What can be do about this? Hint: these public authorities have a duty of care and the duty of affirmative investigation in law, regarding the welfare of the people. They have the duty to be familiar with the material below and related issues.