In the attached file you can find the literature for next session on Alternative monetary systems.


The Commons Alternative monetary systems It contains:

  • Introduction on alternative monetary systems, explained by Community Exchange System
  • Alternative Currencies:  theory on present and alternative currencies
  • Political Ecocomy of Peer production (P2P)
  • Critique on Gift Economies: Escaping the gift economy

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