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How to march for Palestine
For much of the last six months I have been doing a daily 20 min march bearing a Palestinian flag up and down the high street in Matera, Italy, close to which I live. This blog is a record of the technique I've developed. This is not an attempt to take the campaign online, quite the contrary, this has been a rare opportunity for me to work IRL! (in real life)
Architecture: Community Accounting v6: Credit Commons edition!
Constructing systems of exchange
Today I'm releasing this paper which discusses how a stable unit of account is created without the resources of the state (of elites) to back it. There are two ways, when there is sufficient willingness to share risk, mutual credit is the way, otherwise much more complex and costly infrastructure is needed.
Reflections on my time with Grassroots Economics
This January it was my privilege to be invited to visit Grassroots Economics Foundation (GrE) in Kenya, a project which has inspired me since I first met founder Will Ruddick at a conference in 2011. The trip was generously funded by the One Project which supports and promotes his work in various ways.