Pathways to Improvement. Successes and Difficulties of Local Currency Schemes in France since 2010

Jerome Blanc and Marie Fare ()
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Marie Fare: TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This text contemplates the difficulties of French local currencies and the pathways to improvement, in the event of greater sustainability at the local level. After a panorama of the French local currencies , and the observation of a disappointment from a quantity viewpoint, the paper discusses requirements and improvements for a local currency (LC) to contribute to a greater sustainability at the local level. It presents the notion of the relevant territory for a local currency. It then discusses a few crucial points of improvement and the difficulties they face: the role of local governments as major partners; the need for employees in order to constitute a permanent basis for the scheme's activity and development; the need for an digital counterpart of the currency; the need for financing activities. The conditions for a ripple effect are eventually discussed.

Keywords: local currencies; improvement; sustainability; ripple effects; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in International Journal of Community Currency Research, 2018, 22, pp.60 - 73. ⟨10.15133/j.ijccr.2018.006⟩

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DOI: 10.15133/j.ijccr.2018.006

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