Mutual credit systems: anti-crisis remedy or anticapitalist monetary device? From Proudhon’s People’s Bank to the WIR Bank – trading without hoarding?

Les systèmes de crédit mutuel, remède anti-crise ou dispositif monétaire anticapitaliste ? De la Banque du Peuple de Proudhon à la Banque WIR: échanger sans accumuler ?

Simon Papaud ()
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Simon Papaud: LEFMI - Laboratoire d’Économie, Finance, Management et Innovation - UR UPJV 4286 - UPJV - Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 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: Created in 1934, the WIR Bank sought to bring a monetary answer to the economic disorders of its time : its founder, Werner Zimmermann, like his inspirer Silvio Gesell, saw the transformation of the monetary institution both as a remedy to te crisis and a crucial political battleground to fight capitalism. In that, they follow P.- J. Proudhon, whose People's Bank pursued the same goals. Both projects rest on the condemnation of the misusage of money for private accumulation : Proudhon, Gesell and Zimmermann thus outline the image of a monetary system returned to serving the exchanges and social relations.

Keywords: Money; Bank; Gesell; Keynes; Monnaie; Banque; Proudhon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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