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A LETS is a locally initiated, democratically organized, not-for-profit community enterprise which provides a community information service and records transactions of members exchanging goods and services by using the currency of locally created LETS Credits. The LETS Credit currency does not involve coins, paper money ...
by Giorgio Ruffolo (original title: A che serve la moneta?, in "Il capitalismo ha i secoli contati ", © Einaudi 2008, ISBN 8806188275 - translated by Katherine Margaret Clifton)
What is money for?
God and gold often make their appearance in literature. In Faust by Gounod Mephistopheles sings ...
We create our future as much as our past creates us. The relatively new digital world of the internet has offered us new methods of communicating, of discovering and of interacting. We have learned that we don't have to simply copy familiar physical forms ...