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Steve Bosserman on 03 Feb 12

Time banking is a formal framework for organizing the true economy (everything devalued by the money/debt system, including what's written off as the "informal economy") along the lines of reciprocal gifting of work. It's especially versatile for the exchange of services, but can be used for goods as well with a version of the labor measure of value. Goods can be valued according to the time that goes into manufacturing them. This framework is enfolded within the concept of co-production, which is a transitional concept between capitalism and full economic democracy. Time banking as a framework and time dollars as a measure are part of this transition to such consciousness of economic community and freedom that we can dispense with formal measurement completely and restore the wholesome primal system of social credit which originally preceded money for tens of thousands of years.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Time banking is a formal framework for organizing the true economy (everything devalued by the money/debt system, including what's written off as the "informal economy") along the lines of reciprocal gifting of work. It's especially versatile for the exchange of services, but can be used for goods as well with a version of the labor measure of value. Goods can be valued according to the time that goes into manufacturing them. This framework is enfolded within the concept of co-production, which is a transitional concept between capitalism and full economic democracy. Time banking as a framework and time dollars as a measure are part of this transition to such consciousness of economic community and freedom that we can dispense with formal measurement completely and restore the wholesome primal system of social credit which originally preceded money for tens of thousands of years.</div>

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Time Banking: An Alternative to Bartering - Value - Community - AARP Magazine - 0 views

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more jolly analysis: the Benefits of Co-pro « Co-production Resource - 2 views

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shared by Steve Bosserman on 20 Feb 12 - No Cached

Here’s part 2 of the Questionnaire analysis – and exceptionally cheering it is too. I asked you what you thought were the benefits of co-production for participants, organisations and for practitioners (i.e. you). As previously, I merged duplicates and organised the responses thematically. But whichever way you look at it, co-production is thoroughly, entirely, stunningly, profoundly and utterly cowen lush with bells on.
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