by CES Admin | 11 Jun 2020 | Articles
The response by many governments to the coronavirus outbreak has impoverished millions, created massive unemployment, destroyed businesses, disrupted supply chains and eroded our freedoms. We are left on our own to cope with the aftermath, meaning that we have to take...
by CES Admin | 20 Nov 2019 | Articles
Community Exchange Manifesto Short Version Our condition Exchange is the essence of life. For aeons, humans only knew non-monetary exchange. Humanity’s problems started when powerful elites took control of their societies’ means of exchange. Initially, this was...
by CES Admin | 27 Feb 2019 | Articles
Have you ever had to explain what the CES is to someone who has never heard about it? Usually the conversation goes something like this: “So what is this Community Exchange thing?” “It’s a system where people buy and sell without using...
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 CES Admin | 12 Aug 2017 | Articles
In the realm of economics, the word exchange hardly ever appears. This is strange because the economy, surely, is about exchanging what we contribute to it for the things we need, even if this exchange is through the medium of money. Money itself is defined as a...
