[wsfii-discuss] Worldchanging article on Complementary currencies

Wed Oct 5 18:03:32 UTC 2005

I was just rather defensively hoping to head off a relatively
conservative development economist friend telling me I'm bonkers. I sent
it to him cos I think he ought to consider it since he's interested in
working with micro-economic collectives - but, of course, it *would*
manage to copy itself to the list via the reply-to field!

*sigh*

Paula

Mamading Ceesay wrote:

>On 04/10/05, Paula <pmg at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
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>>Ooops, god knows how that happened, it was actually addressed to someone
>>offlist!
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>>Paula wrote:
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>>>You'll prolly think this is bonkers, but you might be interested anyway!
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>Well, seeing as it did appear on the list I'm interested to know what
>appears to be bonkers about CC/LETS/whatever.  It's certainly
>unconventional and never discussed in the mainstream media but there's
>a lot of history behind this and a body of literature on the topic. 
>One of the main proponents of CC is Dr Bernard Lietaer who a former
>leading banker who created the ECU which was the forerunner to the
>Euro.
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>Considering the pervasiveness of money in our culture, it is useful to
>examine the utility of the existing money systems we have and see
>whether they are part of the problem or part of the solution.
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>--
>Mamading Ceesay
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>"Isn't a state that keeps files on innocent persons a police state?"
>-- David Mery - Innocent In London http://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html
> Radio Interview with David Mery
>http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/6963.php
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