Strange Exchange: Using a Complementary Currency to Rearticulate Ethics, Place and Community

Lepofsky, Jonathan

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“…According to several proponents of ACs, part of ACs’ justification stems precisely from how they promote the values of community and solidarity instead of the amoral self-interest of the market sphere (Servet et al 1999; Lepofsky 2009; Lietaer et al 2012; Seyfang 2002). It is argued that ACs can promote the integration of communities because they allow relative neighbors to engage with each other, instead of leaving everyone isolated at the margin of the modern economy (Degens 2016; Oliver Sanz 2016).…”

Section: The Ethical Challenges Of Markets and Moneymentioning

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“…It is argued that ACs can promote the integration of communities because they allow relative neighbors to engage with each other, instead of leaving everyone isolated at the margin of the modern economy (Degens 2016; Oliver Sanz 2016). Moreover, ACs can foster informal exchanges and mutual assistance among community members (Blanc 2018a; Fare and Ould Ahmed 2017; Lepofsky 2009). Some proponents make the stronger claim that ACs promote local economic development and thereby reduce poverty and unemployment (Williams 1996; Bowring 1998; Peacock 2000).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Ethics of Alternative Currencies

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Alternative currencies are means of payment that circulate alongside—as an alternative or complement to—official currencies. While these currencies have existed for a long time, both society and academia have shown a renewed interest in their potential to decentralize the governance of monetary affairs and to bring people and organizations together in more ethical or sustainable ways. This article is a review of the ethical and philosophical implications of these alternative monetary projects. We first discuss various classifications of these currencies before analyzing the ethical challenges linked to the way they tackle social and environmental issues. We also examine the incentive-based and coercive mechanisms used by these currencies from an ethical perspective and debate the promises and perils of monetary decentralization and democracy. We conclude by identifying an agenda for future research.

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Section: The Ethical Challenges Of Markets and Moneymentioning

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“…Specific values constitute, in fact, the raison d'être of local currency schemes. For example, within the growing literature on CCs, Lepofsky (2009) emphasized the figure of the stranger as the core of the ethical dimension of community economic development work. Seyfang (2004Seyfang ( , 2005 put the emphasis on ecological citizenship and sustainable consumption.…”

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Turning values concrete: the role and ways of business selection in local currency schemes

Blanc

Fare

2016

Review of Social Economy

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Alternative consumption schemes require the selection of producers and traders according to criteria and through processes that should make alternative values concrete. The way values turn concrete is crucial for the effectiveness of such projects. This paper investigates the ways criteria and processes are defined and their real meanings and uses through the case of associative local currencies. Drawing on the framework of proximities, it analyses local currency schemes as combining proximities (geographical and nongeographical) and selection processes set up for providers wishing to join. Selection processes may be based on a charter, an approval committee and screening criteria. The objectives of the selection, its measures in principle, the way in which it is applied as well as the practical consequences are discussed. Even when charters and formal participatory schemes for selecting providers are established, proximities appear as the keystone of selection and trust.

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The Cultural Turn and the Conjunctural Economy: Economic Geography, Anthropology, and Cultural Studies

Pickles¹

2012

The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

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Strange Exchange: Using a Complementary Currency to Rearticulate Ethics, Place and Community

Cited by 5 publications

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The Ethics of Alternative Currencies

The Ethics of Alternative Currencies

Turning values concrete: the role and ways of business selection in local currency schemes

The Cultural Turn and the Conjunctural Economy: Economic Geography, Anthropology, and Cultural Studies

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