Money and liberation : the micropolitics of alternative currency movements / Peter North.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

North, Peter, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money.

Monetary policy.

Currency question.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Money and Liberation examines the experiences of groups who have tried to build a more equitable world by inventing new forms of money. Presenting profiles of the trading networks that have been constructed, including Local Exchange Trading Schemes (England), and Green Dollars (New Zealand), Peter North shows how the use of currency has been redefined as part of political action.

Contents:

Beyond the veil? : money and economies

The politics of monetary contestation

Utopians, anarchists, and populists : the politics of money in the nineteenth century

Twentieth-century utopians : Gesell and Douglas

New money, new work? : LETS in the United Kingdom

Kalaka and K'r : green money, mutual aid, and transition in Hungary

The longevity of alternative economic practices : green dollars in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Surviving financial meltdown : Argentina's Barter networks.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5432-8

OCLC:

476125775