An innovative currency project in Kenya achieves impressive social benefits
A currency project that was conceived and operated by Will Ruddick in Kenya last year has reportedly achieved significant social benefits at very little cost. A full report titled, Eco-Pesa: An...
View ArticleComplimentary Currency Systems: Richard Logie at TEDxLeeds
Richard Logie has been for a long time one of the leaders in the commercial barter industry. As owner and operator of The Business Exchange in Scotland and developer of GETS, a moneyless trading...
View ArticleComplementary currency conference shaping up to be a landmark event
The Conference on Complementary Currency Systems that will be held 19-23 June in The Hague, Netherlands, is shaping up to be a significant landmark in the development of currencies and exchange...
View ArticleCommunity currency thriving in Kenya’s slums
In the slums of Kenya, money is especially scarce. Still, the residents are productive and have plenty of goods and services to offer one another. American social entrepreneur Will Ruddick, together...
View ArticleTranscendence instead of reform: taking a fresh look at money and its function
Here is my comment on a recent article titled Krugman’s Craziness that appeared in the New York Sun. –t.h.g. Very few people today, including prize-winning economists, possess a deep knowledge of the...
View ArticleFinal Workshop Announcement—Innovative Finance and Exchange
Society is Exchange! – Frederic Bastiat. All the perplexities, confusions and distresses in America arise not from defects in the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, as...
View ArticleDisruptive Technologies are Making Money Obsolete
Broadly speaking, technology is the organization of knowledge, people, and things to accomplish specific practical objectives. It includes processes, practices, techniques and systems as well as...
View ArticleA new paper on my Solar Dollar proposal has been published.
On July 12, 2021, I presented my Solar Dollar proposal as part of a two day virtual conference titled Pathways to Resilient Zero Carbon Cities, organized by Zero Carbon Lab, School of Creative Arts,...
View ArticleBitcoin, Blockchain, and the end of money as we’ve known it
Whether one likes it or not, the end of money as we’ve known it is at hand. From a more or less conventional perspective it may look something like what David G.W. Birch describes in his Forbes...
View ArticleHow to Solve the Money Problem, in a Nutshell:
What You Need to Know About Money. Currency, Credit, and Exchange Abstract: There remains today, even among economists and “experts,” a general lack of understanding about the essential nature of...
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