Politics within Complementary Currency Systems: The Case Study of Barter Clubs in Argentina

Pepita Ould Ahmed ()

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2018, vol. 50, issue 4, 773-792

Abstract: This paper analyzes how complementary currency systems encourage reflection on an expanding conventional conception of the political and its forms and spaces. From an Argentine case study, it proposes to glimpse in the rise of barter clubs the rejection of capitalist norms and the construction of new spaces of monetary sovereignty encouraging a new expression of value and use of money. However, it argues that the barter system becomes the place of new social polarizations and inequalities. JEL Classification : A14, B52, O17

Keywords: complementary currency; money; contestation; politics; sovereignty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613417711504

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