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Building the Credit Commons with Mutual Credit Clubs: Matthew Slater

Low Impact

This is the second in a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. First – why are you doing this? Why did you do this instead?

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Videos & articles to accompany upcoming book on new economy built around mutual credit

Low Impact

I have a contract to produce a book about growing a new economy ‘in the cracks in capitalism’, with mutual credit at the core. Mutual credit : introduction to mutual credit – the core of the book. Dil Green on mutual credit clubs. Book information. Core videos.

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Mutual credit clubs: an introduction, with Dil Green

Low Impact

This is the first in a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that the book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. I’m going to ask you a some questions that I’m typically asked.

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Mutual credit and economic crashes: interview with Laurence Anderson of Tradeswap, Australia

Low Impact

Today I’m interviewing Laurence Anderson of Tradeswap – a mutual credit network in Australia. I’m very interested in what you’re up to Laurence, because as you know, a group of us are trying to set up mutual credit networks in the UK, with a view to building a global credit commons. It’s not a swap.

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The Money and Society MOOC — and my subsequent adventures in mutual credit

Low Impact

The Money & Society MOOC was launched by Matthew Slater and Jem Bendell in 2014. In four dense but perfectly assimilable 2-hour videos, it blows open your understanding of economics, in an incredibly liberating and empowering way. By ignoring most of what is taught as economics, and going directly to the root — money.

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Community wealth building & mutual credit: a match made in heaven?

Low Impact

This is the third in a series of articles about community wealth building and mutual credit , by Dave Darby and Dil Green of Lowimpact.org and the Open Credit Network. Mutual credit. Mutual Credit is a payment system which operates through rolling credit on the basis of a degree of trust.

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How can people keep working if the economy crashes and there’s just no money around?

Low Impact

Imagine that there’s an enormous economic crash coming. Say, the biggest economic crash in history. Outlandish, I know, but just give it a try. I want you to imagine that you’re a shopkeeper. What are you going to do? How are you going to sell anything when there’s no money around? Scenario 1. You sell mugs, for £1. I want a mug. You want a pen.