Alternative Currency Movements as a Challenge to Globalisation? - A Case Study of Manchester's Local Currency Networks (Paperback)

Over the past 15 years, local money networks, which are essentially trading networks using a community-created currency, have emerged in countries as far apart as Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, Canada and the US, continental Europe and Japan. They range from Local Exchange Trading Schemes (UK), to Time Dollars (US), Green Dollars (New Zealand, Australia and Canada), Trading Circles (Hungary), Barter Networks (Argentina) and Talents (Germany). Drawing on an ethnographic case study of alternative currency movements in Manchester, UK, this book provides an analysis of the motivations, aims, successes and failures of alternative currency networks. It also raises questions such as the contribution of the alternative currency movement to current debates about alternatives to neoliberalism. While it is theoretically informed, critical and grounded in fieldwork, it is also sympathetic to the political aims of the protagonists and cognisant of the non-economic benefits that arise from their development.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2006
Authors:	Peter North
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	194
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-61882-4
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General
LSN:	1-138-61882-9
Barcode:	9781138618824

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