Entropy given to money is very useful in the function of money as a means of exchange (experiments in Worgl-Austria) and completely disfunctional when comming...
I put up 15 of my template letters to John Turmel's yahoo list which has an open to the public archive. (You don't have to join to read or post) Check here:...
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Michael Linton
lcs@...
Jul 4, 2002 3:19 pm
... Dear Cal, Surely "complete choice" includes access to currencies that carry no demurrage charges? Will people consent to paying a tax they can easily ...
From: calsch : Basically, for storing value, I support a split system. Just use items that are portable and of high value per kilogram. This method is unuseful...
Michael Linton said: "Surely "complete choice" includes access to currencies that carry no demurrage charges? Will people consent to paying a tax they can...
From: calsch : Basically, for storing value, I support a split system. Just use items that are portable and of high value per kilogram. Swieto Radosci said: ...
This one has been updated since I last looked at it. Goes into what George Selgin described as "Free Money" or what Hayek called for in his book "The...
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Michael Linton
lcs@...
Jul 4, 2002 4:54 pm
... Cal, Quite. But my point is that "a smooth working system of lowest possible cost" eliminates demurrage as a workable idea. It had some substance in the...
Fiat money is not the only type that ever has problems which is why I have started putting "providing for specific performance of contract" into my email...
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Michael Linton
lcs@...
Jul 4, 2002 6:42 pm
... Any money system based on trust is ALWAYS going to be concerned with breach of trust. People using mutual credit systems should NOT base their ...
Micael Linton wrote: Quite. But my point is that "a smooth working system of lowest possible cost" eliminates demurrage as a workable idea. When demurrage...
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Michael Linton
lcs@...
Jul 4, 2002 7:50 pm
... That's not the point - in that case there is no choice available. First class or steerage, it's still the Titanic for all who sail in her. Before it's...
Sorry, my former empty email slipped out of box. ... where ... national ... overproduction. ... Maybe not Titanic but Arch. Some steerage is needed in...
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Richard Kay
rich@...
Jul 4, 2002 9:59 pm
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:11:35PM +0200, Swieto Radosci (SR) wrote ... (cut) ML> > Before it's worth spending any time, money, energy or entropy on ... SR> To...
Incidentally, if anyone would like to catch a short video with audio of Michael Linton and Thomas Greco speaking, here is a Real Audio promo of the two...
Richard Kay maintains the list and archives of the econ-lets mail list. <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/econ-lets.html> Roughly sixteen months ago (perhaps...
Stephen DeMeulenaere has some new material up on his materials list. <http://ccdev.lets.net/materials.html> Home page is: <http://ccdev.lets.net> This pdf file...
JCT: I am John "The Engineer" Turmel, B. Eng., Banking Systems Engineer. I am in the Guinness Book of Records as the leader of the Abolitionist Party of Canada...
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Graeme P Taylor
telergy@...
Jul 5, 2002 6:47 am
Sirs, re this discussion, in Dandenong Ranges LETS, operating since 1991, with over 100 members each year, but fails in it's primary objective of creating an...
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Richard Kay
rich@...
Jul 5, 2002 10:00 am
Cal, ... Thanks for the plug. ... There is a third method, generally known as bank charges or, in the LETSystem context, cost of service. This tends to be ...
... pay ... make ... I agree. The way of davaluing money should be through its democratically controlled issue for the payments for system operators (=present...
Richard Kay wrote: As Michael says, people will not choose to pay taxes where a free system is available. There could be no free system, if we assume that we...
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Richard Kay
rich@...
Jul 5, 2002 3:19 pm
... Interestingly it is the taxes paid by foreign exchange dealers (within the proposed monetary system that is, in the old one they pay very few taxes) which...
... Yes. Taxes paid by foreign exchange dealers are good solution. They should compensate a community for: 1) loss of a part of a market for local producers of...
Ottawa Citizen "AMAZING CONCEPT" ALLOWS MEMBERS TO CASH OUT By Paula McCooey Tom Kennedy is convinced the world would be a better place if we simply tossed out...
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Leonardo Wild
dlwild@...
Jul 8, 2002 5:28 am
I read a lot of stuff about demurrage, and I read a lot about people why people have (should have) the right to 'create money.' I also read that money...
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Keith Hart
HART_KEITH@...
Jul 8, 2002 1:35 pm
The reason I started from contemporary English usage in matters of 'the economy' goes further than preferring messy to simple ideas. We have gone through a...
Leonardo Wild wrote, and I (Cal) have included my [reply] throughout ... [The experiment at Worgl took place over a period of about 14 months. However, the...
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Leonardo Wild
dlwild@...
Jul 10, 2002 4:31 am
A democracy that doesn't do what it says it's doing is crazy ... or are we all crazy if we believe it's doing what it says it's doing? We may be speaking about...
Historically, money has taken several formats. 1) Symbols without any utility value of their own. This includes cowry shells, feathers, various rings, knots in...
