by Tim Jenkin | 16 Jan 2019 | Articles
From time to time the CES gets accused of being “just another money system”. Is this the case? Are Talents just another form of money? To be able to answer this question, we first need to be clear on what money is. Then we can make the comparison. According to the...
by Tim Jenkin | 25 Jan 2016 | Alternative Exchange Systems
By David Bollier. Photo credit: epSos.de via Foter.com / CC BY. Article cross-posted from Bollier.org. One of the more complicated, mostly unresolved issues facing most commons is how to assure the independence of commons when the dominant systems of finance, banking...
by Tim Jenkin | 22 Dec 2015 | Alternative Exchange Systems
What is a currency? Most of us use the term interchangeably with money, though money is more generic and a currency is the specific money used in a particular country or area. We also tend to think of a currency as the actual physical medium of exchange that...
by Tim Jenkin | 19 Jun 2013 | Alternative Exchange Systems
…. That is the Wrong Question Humanity is confronted with many converging crises that together present a challenge greater than anything faced before. These include resource depletion, resource wars, climate change, environmental pollution and destruction,...
