Local currencies for purposive degrowth? A quality check of some proposals for changing money-as-usual

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 3-13

  Dittmer, Kristofer ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b Research and Degrowth   (Spain)

Author keywords

Degrowth; Local currencies; Localization; Monetary reform; Utopian socialism

Indexed keywords

DEGROWTH; LOCAL CURRENCIES; LOCALIZATION; MONETARY REFORM; UTOPIAN SOCIALISM;

REPAIR; SALES; SUPPLY CHAINS; TOOLS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84879836989     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.03.044     Document Type: Review

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