[wsfii-discuss] Worldchanging article on Complementary currencies

[Paula]

Well, so far my economist friend hasn't responded  but I am, indeed,
expecting to be told I'm an old hippy with a touching, if misplaced,
faith in human nature! - I'll let you know ;-) 

I'm personally a big fan of microeconomic community solutions and ol'
fashioned stuff like credit unions . . . And also think that such
schemes can be a powerful example which, even if not adopted wholesale,
offer practical solutions to specific probelms and, maybe more
importantly, vision which inspires wider social change.

Paula

piksieben at gmail.com wrote:

> Paula wrote:
>
>> 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!
>
>
> I'd love to hear the opinion of an economist (or two) on this. I'm
> pretty sure they'll kill it in an instant.
>
> Anyway, when I was "forced" to exchange 5 pounds to limes on the
> weekend i was pretty annoyed, because effectively it made me to have
> my lunch in one of a very few shops that were selected for
> non-economic reasons by people that I have no influence on.
>
> I'd also like to hear the opinion on this from local shop owners who
> weren't part of the program. I suppose they wouldn't be thrilled if
> they knew about this unfair scheme.
>
> Basically this was simply a transfer of power from me to the issuers
> of Limes. That's not good at all. Well if it was more than 5 quid that
> is, plus the food was actually okay, so I'm not *really* complaining
> but just trying to make a point. :)
>
> Torsten
>
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