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New Currency Research Project

Published on April 8, 2010 by Mike Grenville
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A new research project is interested in hearing from Transition activists who are involved in developing / managing complementary currencies.

The Lewes Pound team

Noel Longhurst, one of the team who established the Totnes Pound is now working on a research project at the University of East Anglia (UEA) that is exploring the barriers that confront community currencies. The Grassroots Innovations: Community Currencies project is being led by Dr Gill Seyfang, who has been researching currencies for several years and also undertook the first (2009) survey of the Transition movement in the UK.

As well as trying to develop an understanding of the state of the global currency ‘movement’ they are interested in hearing about examples of currencies that are in some sense exemplars (e.g. longevity, size) or are attempting to innovate in some way. There is also the opportunity to write a short paper in a special edition of the International Journal of Community Currency Research, also hosted at the UEA. Papers can focus on exemplars, innovations or recent developments within a particular geographical region.

For more information on either the project or the journal contact Noel at n.longhurt@uea.ac.uk

Photo: Lewes pound launch, Sepetember 2008. Photo Mike Gremnvile

Themes: 
Business & Economics

Comments

Anonymous's picture

An electronic local currency

12 April 2010 - 10:34pm — Anonymous

In Future Proof Kilkenny (kilkenny's transition initiative) we have been working on implementing an electronic local currency called the liquidity network. You can download a leaflet here. http://futureproofkilkenny.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/liquidity-brochure-v4.pdf   and read more about it here http://futureproofkilkenny.org/?p=1151#more-1151   Brian Dillon

 

Ed Mitchell's picture

thanks

13 April 2010 - 10:46am — Ed Mitchell

ta - very interesting - have 'tweeted' it :)

Anonymous's picture

UNILETS global community currency has no local malfunctions

14 April 2010 - 2:18pm — Anonymous

"exploring the barriers that confront community currencies."

Jct: Studying the weaknesses of the small local models while the UNILETS Millennium Declaration for an ideal time-based global model goes ignored.

Natty's picture

To tell the truth before I

1 February 2011 - 7:06pm — Natty

To tell the truth before I read this post I knew very little about complementary currencies. So I decided to take a closer look and make a little research in the process of which I found this very interesting video http://www.tubestime.com/watch/silvio-gesell where one of the fathers of complementary currencies gives a very interesting interview.