Money is a symbol system for exchanging real stuff by proxy. Essentially, it is an extension of speech. When farmer A leans over the fence and says to farmer B...
Money is a symbol system for exchanging real stuff by proxy. Essentially, it is an extension of speech. When farmer A leans over the fence and says to farmer B...
... Marshall McLuhan had never heard of degrees of separation. The fact is that we all live within communities that you might say, are concentric rings from...
In reply to Cal, on: Monday, March 03, 2003 6:19 AM Eastern Oz time, Todd wrote If you happen to believe in the idea that a "community" ... GPT So there may be...
Graeme P Taylor
telergy@...
Mar 3, 2003 11:03 am
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... Just a quick remark on this-- the insurance industry certainly does not overlook these phenomena, in which the injured party, the insured, brokers and...
... In general, cryptographic anonymous cash is likely never to operate usefully because the potential nature of the transactions people would want to use such...
Richard Kay
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Mar 4, 2003 10:43 am
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... Yes- we agree on that. Your phrase "blinkered" hits the mark. Of course, you didn't address my challenge, whether a citizen's panopticon such as the STR...
... Greetings, friend, I am afraid these comments may not be of much use to you, in design. What I meant by a serverless architecture was simply that the ...
Dear Leonardo, You are right, they have started charging interest a decade or so ago, much against the original founder's explicit intent and policies. WIR...
bernard lietaer
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Mar 5, 2003 3:59 pm
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Dear Leonardo and Bernard, WIR's main claim to fame it that it works! It has proven that a system and its alternative currency can become an integral and...
Ezio Valentini
ezio@...
Mar 5, 2003 10:17 pm
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1) Bernard Lietaer: WIR and INTEREST & more ??? 2) Kathryn G: Auctioning going on in Oz-land 3) Paul Hesling: Question about LETS limits (francais) 4)...
Dear Ezio et al, Can you give us more info on how it charges interest (what rates) and who gets the demurrage charge (and at what rates)? I did get the ...
Leonardo Wild
dlwild@...
Mar 6, 2003 2:08 pm
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Dear Leonardo, The interest WIR charges varies like interest rates do everywhere. I have been reading comments about alternative currencies from various people...
Ezio Valentini
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Mar 6, 2003 9:40 pm
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Dear Ezio, Thank you for your time and for replying to my questions. In regards to the charging of interest and its relation to acc currencies... ... I believe...
Leonardo Wild
dlwild@...
Mar 7, 2003 3:09 am
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Dear Ezio, The fact that WIR survived until 10 years ago when it bowed to practical neccessity shows what can be done in relation to the creation of an...
Richard Kay
rich@...
Mar 7, 2003 11:20 am
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Dear Richard, In the interest of accuracy, the period of interest-free in WIR lasted only six years, from 1934 to 1940 when the system developed such deficits...
Ezio Valentini
ezio@...
Mar 7, 2003 4:26 pm
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Dear Ezio Thank you for your detailed reply. I think it is unfortunately the case that there is likely to be an extent to which the corrupt nature of...
Richard Kay
rich@...
Mar 7, 2003 10:13 pm
1006
Here is a chapter in a long article from Pamela Brown of Auburn University. (extracted from the book: "Constitution or Competition? Alternative Views on...
That ever recurring topic of value splits into two subsets of topics. The first subset is of relative comparisons of commodities and services. Bastiat, in...
To: A few friends on the ijccr discussion list Hi folks, I became a new subscriber to the International Journal Of Community Currencies Research (ijccr)...
Wesley S. Burt
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Mar 12, 2003 1:49 am
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Dear all (and triggered by Cal's valuable post), Some of you may have already seen this, others haven't. I'm not sure I posted it on ijccr, but here it goes...
Leonardo Wild
dlwild@...
Mar 12, 2003 4:56 pm
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Dear all, Let me step back and ask a question that may seem stupid: WHY DO I HAVE TO PAY A TAX? The answer is simply: because without that tax I won't be able...
Leonardo Wild
dlwild@...
Mar 12, 2003 4:56 pm
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If the cc movement intends being taken seriously we must expose and reject confused thinking in the area of tax. Unless we do so we can never have any...
Richard Kay
rich@...
Mar 13, 2003 5:58 pm
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... Microsoft users who do not want their platform to become totally corrupt and turned against their interests have a lot to thank Linux for, in the sense...
Richard Kay
rich@...
Mar 15, 2003 12:18 am
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... Thank you for this message which I have begun to read but will complete when offline. I will forward excerpts to an Ozlets list where someone recently...
Very Nicely Said Richard! "Microsoft users who do not want their platform to become totally corrupt and turned against their interests have a lot to thank ...
Hi all, further to the discussion about the importance of alternative, seemingly antagonistic "competition" to the fiat currency, (perhaps a capitalist notion...
Graeme P Taylor
telergy@...
Mar 16, 2003 10:53 am
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JCT: Okay, I've never pointed out in court that I believe I'm healthy for two reasons: 1) consuming cannabis; 2) drinking my urine. Of the two medical marvels,...
From Graham: ..."proceeds from any demurrage on a currency need to be directed ... An AHA moment! Because, if I have worked it out correctly, 'demurrage' is ...
Dear people, This, from the Asian Wall Street Journal, is very interesting. It seems that the Islamic finance movement is becoming a major force in the world. ...
