JCT: Part 2 - Partie 2 3 / UNE TRIPLE REVOLUTION FONDATRICE DE NOTRE MODERNITE 3 / A TRIPLE FOUNDING REVOLUTION OF OUR MODERNITY Cette economie marchande est...
JCT: This is a report on LETS currencies in France done at the behest of the French Government. It's long but I think it's worth a look at what are governors...
JCT: Yesterday I told you about the Parc Lafontaine outing with the Quebec LETS-SEL-JEU people in Montreal. They were hoping for 100 and they got it without...
JCT: I don't often comment on philosophers who don't get it right but Cal Schindel often sends some that deserve a look if you have the time which I don't....
I have permission from Mr Greco to publish this chapter: PART III - SEGREGATED MONETARY FUNCTIONS AND AN OBJECTIVE, GLOBAL, STANDARD UNIT OF ACCOUNT (Written...
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Richard Kay
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Aug 22, 2002 10:08 am
... I dispute that these functions of money are in opposition, or could be cleanly seperated, and believe that a rudimentary economic analysis demonstrates...
I must disagree firmly with Richard Kay on this. I do understand that there is some store of value (only in the imagination) between acceptance of medium of...
Cal's preliminary note: Ask yourself; Is this about demurrage? How would this read if the money itself were a demurraged instrument? There is an underlying...
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Leonardo Wild
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Aug 22, 2002 3:42 pm
Just some thoughts triggered by Richard Kay's latest submission. Comments are not an attack of any sort, nor a confirmation, just rumbles from someone sitting...
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Richard Kay
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Aug 22, 2002 4:41 pm
... The fact that something only exists in imagination and belief structure does not prevent it having social reality or practical usefulness. Into this...
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Richard Kay
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Aug 22, 2002 5:23 pm
The abstraction and problems associated with money as a store of value has very practical consequences for a poor peasant selling produce in a market in a...
Richard, Cal's message mixes his own ideas with mine, causing some confusion. There are three functions that need to be segregated: medium of exchange, store...
Leonardo Wild said: "*Storing value* might be looked upon as a *memory of a transaction*, a memory which is being valued by the community using the currency in...
Dear people, Please be advised that my 1994 book, New Money for Healthy Communities, has been translated into French by Toni Pinshof of Brittany. It can be...
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Leonardo Wild
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Aug 24, 2002 2:20 am
... And it also doesn't prevent it from exerting power over people to benefit a few. ... The world is not the concept. Communities existed before the concept ...
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Leonardo Wild
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Aug 24, 2002 2:25 am
... And not a chance in doing anything about it. This is why it's so important to create local currencies, and to choose carefully which are more appropriate...
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Richard Kay
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Aug 24, 2002 10:57 am
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:32:05PM -0500, Leonardo Wild wrote: Much with which I (RK) am in general agreement. However in connection with the maintenance of...
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Richard Kay
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Aug 24, 2002 4:35 pm
... Yes I think holding the debitor in long-term debt an inappropriate way to secure long-term future spending, e.g. for retirement purposes. Investment is a...
JCT: D.N. Pateras has been showing consistent interest in community currency for Greece. I mentioned his letter about the Aegean Island in a past mailbag and...
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Graeme P Taylor
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Aug 26, 2002 11:38 am
To me, there appears to be attempts to hypthesise about some perfect ' currency, with no critique of 'how things get valued'. Community currencies have a huge...
Cal, I was struck by your statement, "today's hypothecated debt model of money discounts the future while a demurraged currency would value the future more...
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Richard Kay
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Aug 26, 2002 4:42 pm
... Currencies will never be perfect, neither will be the ways we value things, but both are capable of some improvement. There will always be a distinction...
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Leonardo Wild
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Aug 27, 2002 3:25 am
Hey ho, here it goes: Community email addresses: Post message: ijccr@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: ijccr-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe:...
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Leonardo Wild
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Aug 27, 2002 3:25 am
To add to Tom's comment: In Hans-Christoph Binswanger's book, MONEY AND MAGIC, I found the following on pp. 88-89. And I quote: <<"The Economy as Mastery of...
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Leonardo Wild
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Aug 27, 2002 3:26 am
Dear all, A little info here that might or might not be of use to some. Cheers, Leonardo Wild This, purportedly, was a speech by Cacique Guaicaipuro Cuatemoc a...
Tom Greco asked: "I was struck by your statement, 'today's hypothecated debt model of money discounts the future while a demurraged currency would value the...
JCT: http://www.liberation.fr is a publication in France which seems to have done a series of articles on the phenomenal growth of time-creditos in Argentina....
JCT: http://www.liberation.fr is a publication in France which seems to have done a series of articles on the phenomenal growth of time-creditos in Argentina....
... JCT; I've been betting for years that the following analysis will scoop a whole bunch of Nobels someday. It's stood unchallenged in sci.econ for almost a...
... JCT: Okay. I hire you to be the cashier in my Casino Turmel bank. You only issue chips based on IOUs for collateral: a) material energy: E = mc^2 = goods,...
