Monetary Plurality in Local, Regional and Global Economies

List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. The monetary system as an evolutionary construct Georgina M. Gomez; 2. Monetary Plurality in Economic Theory Jerome Blanc, Ludovic Desmedt, Laurent Le Maux, Jaime Marques-Pereira, Pepita Ould-Ahmed and Bruno Theret ; 3. Making sense of the plurality of money: a Polanyian attempt Jerome Blanc; 4. How does monetary plurality work at the household level? The division of labour among currencies in Argentina (1998-2005) Georgina M. Gomez; 5. Monetary federalism as A concept and its Empirical underpinnings in Argentina's monetary history Bruno Theret; 6. Famine of Cash: Why Have Local Monies Remained Popular throughout Human History? Akinobu Kuroda; 7. The pervasiveness of monetary plurality in economic crisis and wars Georgina M. Gomez and Wilko von Prittwitz und Gaffron; 8. Birth, Life and Death of a Provincial Complementary Currency from Tucuman, Argentina (1985 - 2003) Bruno Theret; 9. Community Currency and Sustainable Development in Hilly and Mountainous Areas: A Case Study of Forest Volunteer Activities in Japan Yoshihisa Miyazaki and Ken-ichi Kurita; 10. Sustainable Territorial Development and Monetary Subsidiarity Marie Fare; 11. Relationship between people's money consciousness and circulation of community currency Shigeto Kobayashi, Takashi Hashimoto, Ken-ichi Kurita and Makoto Nishibe; 12. Gaming Simulation using Electronic Community Currencies: Behavioural Analysis of Self-versus-Community Consciousness Masahiro Mikami and Makoto Nishibe; 13. For the policy maker: when and how is monetary plurality an option Georgina M. Gomez; Index