J. Orlin Grabbe actually wrote this material: Smart Cards and Private Currencies - The technology of Hayek's dream. <http://www.orlingrabbe.com/smartcards.htm>...
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Leonardo Wild
dlwild@...
Nov 3, 2002 3:28 am
Dear all, Perhaps the search for a Unit of Measure of Value is the wrong search. If I were to sell the sun, and I've decided that the sun should be put in...
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Leonardo Wild
dlwild@...
Nov 3, 2002 3:28 am
Dear all, Quoting myself in the case of reingeering the three functions of money to look like this: 1) Unit of Measure of Price, 2) Means of Exchange, 3)...
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Graeme P Taylor
telergy@...
Nov 3, 2002 7:32 am
Further to Leonardo's lucid analysis, there are properties of a currency that seem to 'pass unnoticed'. Subject: [ijccr] TIME VS Unit of Measure of Price ... ...
Ref: [jccr] TIME VS UOMP, Commercial LETS etc Dear Readers, Forgive me for changing the subject title to indicate a shift from what might be called dogma to...
Dear David, The think tank that myself, Edgar and many others participated in was designed for a specific project (not yet named) that is being developed by...
A new book review has been posted at www.geog.le.ac.uk/ijccr The editors would welcome articles and book reviews for Volume 7 (2003). Graham ~~~~~ Graham Irwin...
Thanks for this Leonardo! Linear vs synchronistic time is a very important distinction to me, along with many of your other examples. Time may be a good...
Thanks, Cal, great stuff. I wish everyone would read E. C. Riegel. He saw clearly the nature of money and the liberating power of free exchange, i.e., exchange...
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Derek
drek@...
Nov 8, 2002 9:16 pm
How many people on this list live in Ottawa? Out of those, how many are interested in forming a group that meets once in a while to discuss, in person, the...
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Leonardo Wild
dlwild@...
Nov 9, 2002 4:25 am
Dear all, As for free exchange and no currency at all, latest private conversations on the local level have made me change my views in regards to the functions...
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Graeme P Taylor
telergy@...
Nov 9, 2002 8:01 am
Dear all, inspired by Leonardo's analysis. I find the idea of wording the "unit of measure of transaction" as any sort of "money", inculcates the wrong...
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Michael Linton
lcs@...
Nov 9, 2002 9:22 am
... Quite right Tom, in both assertions. However the internet also provides an ideal medium for organizing private credit clearing circles (like LETS,...
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Keith Hart
HART_KEITH@...
Nov 9, 2002 10:35 am
Thank you, Leonardo, for this most insightful post. It allows me to express something that has been lurking on the backburner of my mind for a while. What is...
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ernie yacub
yacinfo@...
Nov 9, 2002 5:23 pm
Leonardo et al, I have been writing and talking to people about community currencies, LETS, openmoney systems, community way for over seven years now and the...
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Leonardo Wild
dlwild@...
Nov 10, 2002 4:35 am
Thank you, Keith, for the input and let me see if I can answer some of the questions you posed. Humberto Maturana, a Chilean neurobiologist and author of many...
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bernard lietaer
blietaer@...
Nov 10, 2002 2:11 pm
Dear all, I just wanted to say that I like particularly the quality of the exchange happening in this string. Ernie Yacub's and Michael Linton's way of...
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Ezio "Val" Valentini
ezio@...
Nov 10, 2002 7:37 pm
Mr. Lietaer, I take issue to your statement "Keith's view is that we may be moving towards a new form of barter world is proven in practice with the explosion...
JCT: Jean Chretien has just announced two Quebec byelections with another one in Ontario coming up within another few months. That's going to be my number 55...
... Sir, do you know how long it has been since a single political party has controld the government? Thank you very much for your time and consideration in...
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Keith Hart
HART_KEITH@...
Nov 10, 2002 9:27 pm
... towards a new form of barter world is proven in practice with the explosion of commercial barter". Keith must be kidding, commercial barter is not...
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Graeme P Taylor
telergy@...
Nov 11, 2002 1:21 am
Finding the right words to describe something of what I am not yet sure, is a bit like believing that an egg is the great creator of the chicken. Researching...
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Leonardo Wild
dlwild@...
Nov 11, 2002 5:07 am
Dear Graeme et al, I'm still not sure if I can use the rights words because the following theme is not part an area that I have given much conscious thought ...
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Keith Hart
HART_KEITH@...
Nov 11, 2002 11:37 am
Please excuse the bitty responses to your long post, Leonardo. 1. I don't think that changes to the carburettor are of the same order as changing money which...
What I mean by federation is the cooperation among local systems to allow for a wider application of mutual credit that transcends geographical boundaries. If...
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Richard Kay
rich@...
Nov 11, 2002 9:53 pm
The problem of exchange between currencies is solved through currency exchange, by accepting that one currency will be bought and sold in exchange for another....
JCT: Social Credit Grandfather Adelard Turmel was born in 1898 and was the perfect 18 year-old fodder to go off and fight in the trenches when conscription for...
Dear Ezio, Thank you for that authoritative report on the present status of the commercial "barter" industry. I'm pleased to have someone with your experience...
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Leonardo Wild
dlwild@...
Nov 12, 2002 12:49 pm
Dear Keith et al, ... No problem. ... Money has become a sort of religion so your example might fit very well. Perhaps my example of carburetor and unit of...
