by Tim Jenkin | 15 Oct 2024 | Articles
This is one of those classic chicken and egg questions. There can be no exchange without production but production can only happen if there are preceding exchanges. At first glance it seems that production must be the starting point because if you want to exchange you...
by Tim Jenkin | 18 Oct 2016 | Alternative Exchange Systems
There is probably no subject that has been written about more frequently than money and its origins. Usually money is portrayed as a natural phenomenon like gravity, energy or light: one of the constants of the universe. It is assumed to have a unitary understanding...
by Tim Jenkin | 30 Aug 2016 | Alternative Exchange Systems
From time to time users of mutual credit exchange systems, such as CES and LETS, raise the questions of ‘saving’ and ‘investment’. These concepts are so much part of the conventional money system that it is assumed there is a place for them in...
by Tim Jenkin | 1 Aug 2012 | Alternative Exchange Systems
By Tim Jenkin Have you read the financial press recently? Have you read a single article that is positive about the economic outlook for 2012? In fact, have you read anything that is not positively scary? It is not just marginal reporters exaggerating the current...
by Tim Jenkin | 1 Dec 2011 | Alternative Exchange Systems
This is the unedited version of an article written for Digital Development Debates Read the published version (HTML) (PDF) By Tim Jenkin It became clear in the final years of the twentieth century and the early years of this century that the converging crises of...
