Peter North is a senior research fellow and lecturer at the University of Liverpool England. His book Money and Liberation published in 2007 by the University of Minnesota Press is a serious consideration of community currencies and exchange in the context of economic and monetary reform.

Thomas H. Greco is a different sort of writer who has developed a significant following at the popular level of utopian economic literacy. One reason he is being reviewed here is based upon his long term advocacy of a particular approach to community currencies which he interprets as equal to advocacy for monetary reform. His first book was possibly the worst non-fiction book I had ever read up to that point.

Readers: The word "anarchism" has several negative connotations within the general public. In the most literal sense it can be defined as anti-archism. In Chomsky's definition anarchism places the burden of responsiblity to validate authority upon those who would chose to act on their own authority, rather than placing the burden of validation upon those who are ruled or constrained to be governed. Her critique of alternative currencies is for the most part accurate.

Readers: This is going to be a bit difficult to follow I expect, AND it seems like the most direct way that I can raise these issues about community currencies. This Dutch community currency is only a good example of a very shallow understanding of what is needed in the way of monetary reform. This is an example of the strong current of pop-economics within the conversations about community based currencies and exchange systems.

Readers: This is an overview of our process toward establishing a community exchange process based to a degree upon upon the Local Exchange and Trading System model. The goals are to have both an effective and expandable process and to have the model reflect the best features of what should be a reformed and sovereign monetary system. We are now comparing various programs that are adaptable to this sort of utility. At the level we are now operating, we have an educational process already established.