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140 Appendix 2: Useful Websites General Green Economics Sites http://circ2.home.mindspring.com This is the general website of community economist Tom Greco, and contains all of his articles. www.globalideasbank.org Use this site’s search engine to access all kinds of innovative ideas on community currencies. www.greens.org.nz The website of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, with submissions, media statements and speeches. www.jobsletter.org.nz A regular New Zealand newsletter on jobs, which also has a wealth of material on community development and green economics. Great links, great site design. www.jubilee2000uk.org The website of Jubilee Research, the international debt and finance programme of the New Economics Foundation. Contains research reports and news updates on worldwide economics issues. www.neweconomics.org The site of the New Economics Foundation, London, an independent thinktank that gathers information on new economics. History and Theory of <strong>Money</strong> www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/llyfr.html Contains a summary of Glyn and Roy Davies’ book The History of <strong>Money</strong> from Ancient Times to the Present Day. www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/money.html This site lists numerous microcredit and credit unions, general resources on local and interestfree currencies, and LETS websites by the dozen. www.moneymaker.com/money/italy/index.htm
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4 international trade in currencies
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6 The data on New Zealand mortgage
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12 City Council in mid2000 review
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18 Keeping the Secret But surely if
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20 Deputy Prime Minister. I asked h
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53 constraints. What we need are so
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59 As far back as 1987, a UN World
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61 The State of New Zealand Since 1
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63 Health and Disability Like other
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1 4 Unhealthy Globalisation The Sir
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5 globalisation is transnational ca
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7 Many others have spoken of invisi
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11 policies of these nations in ret
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15 annual meeting in the small ski
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17 When an enemy is powerful and ce
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19 In January 2001, protesters demo
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82 billion, equivalent to 39 per ce
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86 increase. And when jobs are crea
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88 rather than adding them to the w
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92 placed at the top of the lists.
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88 6 Facing the Critics Through the
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90 the interestbased system, the
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92 good or fair or sustainable. An
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94 Certainly there are other ways o
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96 landlord who charges you rent al
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100 If interest rates were zero the
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102 It is quite fair that banks sho
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2 free money before, as we shall se
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4 In precolonial times, Maori tri
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6 In Maori tribes, the gift society
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9 What Gives Money its Value? To he
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11 accept money as payment, we unco
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13 goes still further and calls mon
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15 Spanish and Dutch coins from ove
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17 claimed that the UK’s financia
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19 Today, the Reserve Bank retains
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2 living systems. Finally, it discu
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4 If our species is to survive, a n
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10 addiction, chronic illness and i
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12 4. Human economies can and shoul
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24 democracy at the local governmen
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4 her children who were fed by its
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6 happened - the imposition of a co
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10 In addition, by focusing on loca
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2 Michael Linton, David Weston and
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12 All the following examples of co
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14 sent a researcher to check the w
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16 Salt Spring Island Dollars Salt
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20 partnership. This trend has spre
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24 The city solicitor put the bigge
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259 sophisticated that Egypt became
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261 Austria, for a period of 14 mon
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267 law professor in Italy. Profess
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271 Currency to Support Waldorf Sch
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20 It started in 1989 when Frank To
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22 Privately Issued Fiat Currencies
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1 15 Lessons Learnt From Currencies
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7 within that global economy we mus
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9 Money can also be spent into exis
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11 Huber and James Robertson, 6 it
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19 trading. We therefore need decen
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27 1905. 2 Michael Reddell of the R
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2 Taxation Policies Before I discus
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14 Ltd, 1879. 3 Henry George, Socia
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