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Local Exchange Trading Systems

• Gulbenkian Foundation Report. LETS Act Locally: The Growth of Local Exchange Trading Systems. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (October 1, 1997) ISBN 978-0903319812

An informative work surveying the successes and failures of LETS in the UK during the mid-late-nineties.

• Linton, Michael. The LETSystem Design Manual. Landsman Community Services Ltd (1994)

A classic organizers' text by the self-described "sole authority regarding the operation of LETSystems."

• Lang, Peter, LETS Work: Rebuilding the Local Economy. Eco-Logic Books / Worldly Goods (1994) ISBN 1-899233-00-8

A classic text covering LETS from A to Z although some information is dated.

Alternative Economics

• Douthwaite, Richard. The Ecology of Money. Green Books (February 2000) ISBN 978-1870098816

An interesting exploration of different money systems and their purposes by the founder of the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability.

• Mauss, Marcel. The Gift. (1923) ISBN 978-0393320435

One of the earliest and most important studies of reciprocity and gift economies, written by father of modern French anthropology.

• Boyle, David. The Little Money Book. The Disinformation Company (April 2006) ISBN 978-1-932857-26-9

A book to "brief you on the emerging debate about money" and "tell you the truth that politicians and brokers alike prefer not to think about too much: the way they have lost control of a gigantic financial system that could enrich or impoverish us all in seconds if it chose to do so."

• Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor. Harvard University Press (October, 2006) ISBN 978-0674023550

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