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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 […]

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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Social Trade Organisation

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

Parallel currencies

People Powered Money (CCIA)

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