Funny Money: In Search of Alternative Cash

Author:   David Boyle
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780006530671


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 February 2000
Format:   Paperback
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Only our limited idea of money is keeping us poor. David Boyle introduces us to alternative cash and people who can conjure money – that is, spending power – out of nothing. Until recently, the growth of alternative cash had been the province of big business: phone cards, stamps, air miles and Tesco’s clubcard points all have purchasing power, yet are not cash as we know it. Now, locally created money systems like ‘time dollars’, ‘Womanshare’ and ‘Ithaca hours’ are being invented by communities for communities. With clarity and great humour, Boyle tells the story of this extraordinary revolution: he travels to the USA to visit the people behind local money systems; relates their vision of the future; and describes how to set up your own currency. This is no dry theoretical tome: Boyle writes about his subject in a way that is concrete, illuminating, often very funny and always highly readable. This paperback edition includes a new epilogue with an update on the latest alternative currency ideas: ‘You just have to cast doubt on the real existence of the money markets and they could just shrivel away. Anything could happen.’ A revolution is underway now: this book tells the story of its leaders and the ideas that inspired them.

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Author:   David Boyle
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:   Flamingo
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.120kg
ISBN:  

9780006530671


ISBN 10:   0006530672
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 February 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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`An inspirational book, crammed with ideas' TES


'An inspirational book, crammed with ideas' TES


'An inspirational book, crammed with ideas' TES


Economics is not everyone's idea of interesting bedtime reading. But here a business journalist has taken an unlikely economic topic - that of alternative currencies - investigated it (mainly in the USA) in depth and created a lively review that both fascinates and informs. It may still be a few years before you are being paid in 'time dollars', but LETS (Local Exchange and Trading Systems) are well established and people deal in 'Strouds', 'Bobbins' and 'Olivers', among other things, to a surprising extent. This could change the way you think about money forever. (Kirkus UK)


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David Boyle has been writing about the past and the future, and new ideas in economics, for more than a quarter of a century. He is a fellow of the New Economics Foundation and has just completed an independent review for the Cabinet Office. He is the author of The Tyranny of Numbers, The Human Element and Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life. He lives in London.

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