Parallel currencies Archive

Thirty questions to Bernard Lietaer – A MONNETA interview recorded in 2016

The 4th International Conference on Social and Complementary Currencies will take place from Wed 10th to Sun 14th May 2017, at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya UOC (www.uoc.edu, Castelldefels, Barcelona-Spain). More information, call for papers, registration here. UOC will organise the event together with Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary Currency Systems […]

Veranstaltungsort: University of Bahia, Salvador (Brasilien)

Infos und Anmeldung: http://socialcurrency.sciencesconf.org/

Every two years, a dedicated international conference for research into complementary currencies and for exchange between academics and practitioners takes place. The first event of this kind was in Lyon, France, in February 2011, followed by a second conference in the Hague, Netherlands, in June 2013. In 2015, researchers from around the world met in […]

The Dutch foundation STRO (Social Trade Organisation or Strohalm) was founded in 1970 by Henk van Arkel. Its original focus on environmental issues has shifted in the last twenty years ever more in the direction of activities in the area of alternative economics and particularly complementary currencies – always following the conviction that economic and […]

Presentation as part of the European Seminar Series ‘Monetary Unity in Diversity’ – “Addressing the Eurozone Crisis: are Parallel/Dual Currencies a Solution?” Jointly organized by Veblen Institute und Attac France Paris, 18. March 2013. You can download the presentation as a PDF here (3,9 MB)

The New Economics Foundation (NEF) is a British ‘think tank’, which promotes economic and ecological justice. NEF has been the UK’s leading research organisation for money, credit and complementary currencies since 1986. www.neweconomics.org

Parallel currencies are currencies that are issued by the state as an official second currency alongside legal tender currency and can also be designated as legal tender. A parallel currency can be a stable, hard currency (e.g., a foreign currency) that is used alongside a weak national currency, to combat hyperinflation in the national currency […]

Original article by Christian Gelleri published in German in the magazine of INWO (Initiative for a Natural Economy), September 2015 Christian Gelleri and Thomas Mayer proposed a ‘second currency’ for Greece in 2011, which was followed by lots of media reports in March 2012. Greece’s problems have still not been solved. The country is still […]

The book People Powered Money (download as PDF) is one of the results of the project Community Currencies in Action (CCIA), which ran between 2011 and 2015. CCIA, which was part-funded by the European Union through its Interreg program, was the largest transnational project in the area of complementary currencies. It brought together experts from […]

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Interview Bernard Lietaer

Event archive: IV International Conference on Social and Complementary Currencies: money, awareness and values for social change

Event archive: 3rd International Conference on Complementary Currencies in Salvador, Brazil

Report from 3rd International Research Conference on Community Currencies, Brazil

Social Trade Organisation

Ludwig Schuster: Parallel Currencies for the Euro Zone. A short comparison of design options and proposals (2013)

Parallel currencies

A parallel currency for Greece

People Powered Money (CCIA)

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