This article provides a quality check of the degrowth movement's proposal of local
currencies as tools for advancing socially equitable and ecologically sustainable degrowth …

As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the
meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on'social and …

Alternative currencies are means of payment that circulate alongside—as an alternative or
complement to—official currencies. While these currencies have existed for a long time, both …

ABSTRACT Complementary Currency Systems (CCS) are accounting systems that define
local monetary spaces created by non‐bank actors to pay for exchange of goods and …

Looking from the 11th century to the 20th century, Kuroda explores how money was used
and how currencies evolved in transactions within local communities and in broader trade …

This text focuses on the role of governments and administrations in the emergence, spread,
development and differentiation of community and complementary currency schemes (CCs) …

In the last decades, Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) has become an everyday practice
for an increasing number of citizens, and the SSE sector has been constantly expanding …

Opposing approaches to money competition that state that all monetary forms are
substitutes, theories of complementarity state that some can be complementary. This text …

The history of money reflects a story of innovation of several millennia in which agents and
societies have experimented with a myriad of money-things and organisational models. A …

Local Currencies, Local Exchange Trading Systems, and Time Banks are all part of a new
social movement that aims to restrict money's purchasing power within a certain geographic …