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Book of the Week (3): Why we need Demurrage

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Michel Bauwens
17th June 2011


* Book: New Currency: How Money Changes the World As We Know It. By Jordan Bruce MacLeod. Integral Publishers, 2009

In our third and last instalmment on this very readable introduction to the importance of complementary currencies, we attach the scribd version of the chapter on demurrage-based currencies. See the link at bottom for accessing it. The table just below give the author’s vision of the evolution of currencies.

Appendix B Final Revised

We also recommend watching the following video on designing non-scarcity based currency systems:

Why we need Demurrage

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