See also www.timedollar.org for an extremely interesting alternative
currency that is dramatically demonstrating how much difference it
makes, what currency you use. I am currently working with Edgar Cahn,
the inventor of Time Dollars, to write a paper that gives some
theoretic background (from my perspective as an economist) on why
this makes so much difference. If there is interest in this list,
I'll indicate how to get the paper... when it ever gets done.
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Neunteufel Robert wrote:
> The level of interest has far-reaching consequences for the development of
> the working conditions ( time pressure, just in time production, lean
> production, outsourcing, automatization, ... ).
>
> What do you think about alternative money systems and their consequences for
> the future of work?
>
> For example : the experiment of Woergl, Tyrol, Austria in 1932/1933 ->
> http://www.tauschring.de/e0502hof.htm
>
> and "Interest and inflation free money" by Margrit Kennedy (1991) ->
> http://www.globalideasbank.org/BOV/BV-101.HTML
>
> Robert Neunteufel
>
>
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