EOM Ch. 14 How Exchange Systems Succeed or Fail
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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr. Chapter Fourteen: How Exchange Systems Succeed or Fail Architecture of the Currency Principle 1: Who Is Qualified to Issue Currency? Principle 2: On What Basis Should Currency Be Issued? Principle 3: How Much Currency May Be Issued? Principle 4: How to Determine the Period of validity? Implementation Strategies The Situational Context
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EOM Ch. 13 Beyond Political Money: Good Intentions Are Not Sufficient
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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr. Chapter Thirteen: Beyond Political Money: Good Intentions Are Not Sufficient Two Currents of Alternative Exchange The Tucson Experience More Recent Experiments in Mutual Credit Clearing Local Currencies A Better Currency Model Why Exchange Alternatives Have Failed to Thrive Case Studies Prospects for Future Success
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EOM Ch. 12 How to Solve the Money Problem
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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr. Chapter Twelve: Credit Clearing, the “UnMoney” Reform or Transcendence? Emerging Exchange Alternatives Separating the Functions of Money Back to Commodity Money? The Unit of Account Versus the Unit of Currency The Measurement of Value Confusion Caused by Legal Tender Laws
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EOM Ch. 11 Credit Clearing, the “UnMoney”
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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr. Chapter Eleven: Credit Clearing, the “UnMoney” Direct Clearing Among Buyers and Sellers Buying and Selling on Credit Clearing through Banks Versus Mutual Credit Clearing Direct Credit Clearing Makes Conventional Money and Banking Obsolete Mutual Credit Clearing Systems as Clearing Houses for Buyers and Sellers Direct Credit Clearing—An Illustrative Example Balance Limits and Settlement Providing Surety of Contract An Insurance Fraud
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EOM Ch. 10 The Third Evolutionary Stage—The Emergence of Credit Clearing
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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr. Chapter Ten: The Third Evolutionary Stage—The Emergence of Credit Clearing Banks Implement the Credit Clearing Process Thing or Relationship? Particle or Wave? A Confusion of Language An Example of Credit Clearing Among Banks Settlement of Accounts
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EOM Ch. 9 The Evolution of Money - From Commodity Money to Credit Money and Beyond
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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr. Chapter Nine: The Evolution of Money - From Commodity Money to Credit Money and Beyond What We Don’t Know Is Hurting Us Economic Exchange and Interpersonal Distance Kinds of Economic Interaction What is Money? “The Ladder of Economic Civilization” The First Evolutionary Step—Barter to Commodity Money Commodity Money Symbolic Money The Second Evolutionary Step—From Commodity Money to Credit Money Redeemability Abandoned Checks and Checkable...
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TNT Radio interview with Pelle Neroth Taylor May 30, 2024
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This half-hour interview comes from the Pelle Neroth Taylor Show on TNT Radio which aired on Thursday, May 30, 2024. This is a wide-ranging conversation about the problems with the present political system of money and exchange, and the decentralized exchange mechanisms that have been developing in parallel with it, including both commercial and grassroots currencies and credit clearing exchanges. The full episode can be viewed at TNT Radio at A transcript can be seen at
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EOM Ch. 8 The Separation of Money and State
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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr. Chapter Eight: The Separation of Money and State The Separation of Church and State The Separation of Money and State—A Comparison The Disestablishment of the “Monetary Religion” Two Meanings of “Dollar” Delinking from the Dollar as a Payment Medium Delinking from the Dollar as a Measure of Value Stable Value Reckoning Toward Freedom of Exchange
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EOM Ch. 7 The Nature, Cause, and Consequences of Inflation
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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr. Chapter Seven: The Nature, Cause, and Consequences of Inflation What is Inflation? Who Has the Power to Inflate? Improper Basis of Issue by Banks Is Inflationary Government Deficits and Inflation The German Hyperinflation—A Classic Case How the Inflation Was Ended Constraints upon Debasement of the Money The Consequences of Dollar Inflation Responding to Inflation Ralph Borsodi’s Prescriptions
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EOM Ch. 6 Usury, the Engine of Destruction
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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2024 edition) by Thomas H. Greco, Jr. Chapter Six: Usury, the Engine of Destruction Monetary Stringency, Past and Present Increasing Instability The Magic of Compound Interest Why the Federal Budget Cannot Be Balanced Usury or Interest? How Debt-Money Is Dysfunctional Three Aspects of Money Dysfunction Moral Arguments, Laws, and Practical Solutions Keys to Transcendence
info_outlineEpisode 03: Will Ruddick
Will Ruddick is a development economist focusing on currency innovation. After completing graduate school researching high energy physics as a collaboration member at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, he found his analysis skills and passion drawn to alternative economics and development. Since 2008 Will has lived in East Africa and managed several successful development programs in environment, food security and economic development. He is dedicated to connecting communities to their own abundance, and is an advocate for, and designer of currencies for poverty eradication and sustainable development. Mr. Ruddick has pioneered Community Currency Programs in Kenya since 2010 and is the founder of the award winning Bangla-Pesa program. He consults on Community Currencies worldwide and while researching with the University of Cape Town's Environmental Economics Policy Research Unit. Mr. Ruddick is also an associate scholar with the University of Cumbria's Institute for Leadership and Sustainability.
His specialties are program development, research, data analysis, agent based modeling, computer simulation, monitoring and evaluation, complementary currencies, informal settlements, environmental programs, cooperatives.
In this episode, Will talks to us about his work over the past eleven years, organizing micro-entrepreneurs in poor areas of Kenya. Central to his work has been the creation of community currencies that have enabled a greater amount of trading and utilization of capacity in those communities. Recently, Will and his associates have been implementing digital forms of those currencies, and networking communities together in a wide area exchange system.
Grassroots Economics, https://www.grassrootseconomics.org
“Through community currencies people have a way to exchange goods and services and incubate new businesses, without relying on scarce national currency and volatile markets.”
Documentary on Will Ruddick and Kenyan Community Currencies, https://youtu.be/ojFPrVvpraU
How to Give People the Same Power As Banks, https://youtu.be/PfEW2atiB4s
Unblock HongKong - Interview with Will Ruddick - Director at BANCOR, https://youtu.be/OagQNEecZhA
M-Pesa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
This interview with Will Ruddick was conducted 2019 April 30.