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| There was never a society in which the main means of exchange was barter, and [money didn’t evolve from barter](https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/david-graeber-on-the-invention-of-money-%e2%80%93-notes-on-sex-adventure-monomaniacal-sociopathy-and-the-true-function-of-economics.html), but from mutual exchange within communities, where the vast majority of exchanges took place. Barter was always marginal and between strangers. | _There was never a society in which the main means of exchange was barter, and [money didn’t evolve from barter](https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/david-graeber-on-the-invention-of-money-%e2%80%93-notes-on-sex-adventure-monomaniacal-sociopathy-and-the-true-function-of-economics.html), but from mutual exchange within communities, where the vast majority of exchanges took place. Barter was always marginal and between strangers._ |
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| A street ad for the [Sardex](https://www.sardex.net/?lang=en) mutual credit system in Sardinia. | _A street ad for the [Sardex](https://www.sardex.net/?lang=en) mutual credit system in Sardinia._ |
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| This stern-looking bloke is [William Batchelder Greene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Batchelder_Greene) - the first serious advocate of mutual banking and credit in the modern world - in the early 19th century in Massachusetts. | _This stern-looking bloke is [William Batchelder Greene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Batchelder_Greene) - the first serious advocate of mutual banking and credit in the modern world - in the early 19th century in Massachusetts._ |
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| There's a lively mutual credit scene in Australia, where they have developed their own [Australian Community Exchange System](https://www.communityexchange.net.au/) network. | _There's a lively mutual credit scene in Australia, where they have developed their own [Australian Community Exchange System](https://www.communityexchange.net.au/) network._ |
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| You can develop [new skills](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/topics-2/) to provide products or services for a willing group of local customers, and maybe turn that hobby into a career. | _You can develop [new skills](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/topics-2/) to provide products or services for a willing group of local customers, and maybe turn that hobby into a career._ |
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| ## Further resources | ## Further resources |
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| | - [International Clearing Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Clearing_Union) - mutual credit between nations - proposed (unsuccessfully) by John Maynard Keynes at the Bretton Woods meeting in 1944 |
| | - [International Reciprocal Trade Association](https://irta.com/) - trade body for commercial barter (actually mutual credit) organisations |
| | - [Wir Bank](https://reinventingmoney.com/wir-information/) - info on the mutual credit Wir Bank from Tom Greco |
| | - [Beyond Money](https://beyondmoney.net/) - Thomas Greco's site: 'devoted to the liberation of money and credit, and the restoration of the commons' |
| | - [Community Exchange System](https://www.community-exchange.org/home/) - provides the means for communities to trade and exchange their goods and services, both locally and remotely |
| | - [Community Forge](https://communityforge.net/en) - providing open source platforms for mutual credit schemes |
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