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A New Economic Model: People Centered
Economics
Womanshare is part of a worldwide movement
that is creating new ways of living together based on people's
real needs - a movement of cooperation and mutual aid, where caring
for others and self-interest come together. These are some organizations
and models that practice people centered economics and have inspired
us.
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LINKS
Maine
Time Dollar Network
The state of Maine's Time Dollar Exchange. Portland's Time Dollar
program has worked closely with Womanshare and has many similarities.
Time
Dollar Institute
A comprehensive site about Time Dollars, including names, addresses,
and links to Time Dollar organizations.
Ithaca
Hours
An organization in Ithaca, New York using printed community currency.
The site contains a comprehensive list and links to community
currencies. Sells a Starter Kit.
LETSystem
The Home Page
Information for LETS (Local Economic Trading System), a computer
run community currency using "Green Dollars" for trading,
invented by Michael Linton. Popular in Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, and throughout Europe.
Project
LETS
Project LETS List aims to identify every local currency system
in the world and provide their contact information.
Bernard
Lietaer's Beyond Greed and Scarcity
E.
F. Schumacher Society
Yes!
A Journal of Positive Futures
Contents from past issues of Yes! Each has sample articles from
the journal.
Coop
America
Grassroots
Economic Organizing Newsletter
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REFERENCES
Local Currencies and Time Dollars
and Money
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Cahn and Rowe,
Time Dollars,
Rodale Press, 1992
Douthwaite, Richard,
Short Circuit,
Dublin, Ireland, 1996
Greco, Jr., Thomas H.,
New Money for Healthy Communities,
Thomas H. Greco Publisher, 1994, P.O. Box 42663, Tucson,
AZ 85733
The first book about benefits and types of local currency
Swann, R (many papers but especially
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Local Currencies: Catalysts for Sustainable Regional
Economies,
E. F. Schumacher Society, Great Barrington, Mass, 1995
Kennedy, Margrit,
Interest and Inflation Free Money,
New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, Pa, 1995
Soloman, Lewis D.,
Rethinking Our Centralized Monetary System: The
Case for a System of Local Currencies,
Praeger, Westport, Conn., 1996
Savdie and Cohen-Mitchell,
Local Currencies in Community Development or too
much mngwotngwotiki is bad for you,
Center for International Education, School of Education,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997
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People Centered Economics
Brandt, Barbara,
Whole Life Economics,
New Society Publishers, 1995
Morrison, Roy,
Ecological Democracy,
South End Press, Boston, Ma, 1995
Henderson, Hazel,
The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives to Economics,
Knowledge Systems, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana,
1988
Henderson, Hazel,
Paradigms in Progress: Life Beyond Economics,
Knowledge systems, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana,
1991
Henderson, Hazel,
Creating Alternative Futures: The End of Economics
Rifkin, Jeremy,
The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor
Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era,
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY, 1995
Meeker-Lowery, Susan,
Invested in the Common Good,
New Society Publishers, 1995
Meeker-Lowery, Susan,
Economics as if the Earth Really Mattered,
New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, 1988
Korten, David,
The Post-Corporate World: Live After Capitalism,
co-published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc,
and Kumarian Press, Inc., 1999
Waring, Marilyn,
If Women Counted,
Harper, San Francisco, 1988
Fiffer, Steve and Sharon Sloan,
Fifty Ways to Help Your Community: A Handbook for
Change,
Doubleday, 1994
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