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People Money
The Promise of Regional Currencies
Margrit Kennedy, Bernard Lietaer 
and John Rogers

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People Money 
The promise of regional currencies
Margrit Kennedy, Bernard Lietaer and John Rogers

People Money is a comprehensive guide to the principles and practice of regional currencies. It shows how regional currencies can transform the lives and well-being of local communities, how they can sustain businesses, how local authorities can participate in their success and, consequently, why supporting regional currencies is of vital importance to the future of your community, region or country.

It's also a comprehensive guide to the process of developing and implementing a regional currency.

Readership

  • Anyone interested in developing and implementing a regional currency
  • Policy makers on the funding of education, sustainable initiatives, social welfare, youth projects etc.
  • Business leaders with spare capacity
  • NGOs or organisations who want to attract more volunteers
  • Local authority and community leaders
  • Talent exchange initiatives
  • Anyone who doesn’t understand the importance of regional currencies

Comparing our existing currency system with Regional Currencies

The existing system
Centralised national money destroys community. It makes us deal with human beings like we deal with dented cans – we throw them away when we can’t make a profit from them ... 
Bob Fishman, Equal Dollars Community Currency

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, vast numbers of people have had their livelihoods stripped away and, for many, the future looks bleak. There is a growing gap between the haves and have-nots and the disagreements between policy makers (economists and governments) about how to ‘rebalance the economy’ increasingly suggest that nobody has control or knows what to do.

The growth vs. austerity options under consideration will do little to help the financial sector stabilise. According to the IMF, there have been at least 145 banking crises, 208 monetary crashes and 72 sovereign-debt crises in the last 40 years and these are bound to continue if we stay with the present approach.

This is a deep systemic crisis caused by the rift between a casino economics based on monetary speculation and the social and ecological realities of our time. The only answer is to reinvent money.

The Benefits of Regional Currencies
Communities are full of underused resources: individuals with time and talents; businesses, voluntary associations and local authorities with spare capacity (hire cars, restaurant tables, printing services, theatre seats, underused buildings).

Regional Currencies mobilize these resources without burdening taxpayers at the national or regional level. Regional Currencies:
  • value talents and skills
  • rebuild communities and strengthen local economies
  • help protect local environments 
  • share inventory, labour and skills within the community
  • harness volunteers more effectively
  • support learning, training and skills-sharing
  • sustain local businesses with spare capacity
  • meet the demand for the care and support of the elderly.
Finally, they are not at risk from a meltdown in the financial sector. 

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