Money and liberation : the micropolitics of alternative currency movements /

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Author / Creator:North, Peter, 1962-
Imprint:Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
Description:xxix, 202 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6374448
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ISBN:9780816649624 (hc : alk. paper)
0816649626 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816649631 (pb : alk. paper)
0816649634 (pb : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-200) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Thinking Economies Otherwise
  • 1. Beyond the Veil? Money and Economies
  • 2. The Politics of Monetary Contestation
  • 3. Utopians, Anarchists, and Populists: The Politics of Money in the Nineteenth Century
  • 4. Twentieth-Century Utopians: Gesell and Douglas
  • 5. New Money New Work? Lets in the United Kingdom
  • 6. Kalaka and Kor: Green Money, Mutual Aid, and Transition in Hungary
  • 7. The Longevity of Alternative Economic Practices: Green Dollars in Aotearoa/New Zealand
  • 8. Surviving Financial Meltdown: Argentina's Barter Networks
  • Conclusion: The Ghosts of Marx and Simmel?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index