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	<title>flow &#187; community currency</title>
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	<description>it&#039;s all about the pattern</description>
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		<title>The Vow of Wealth</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2009/09/28/id-145</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[collective intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Jean-François Noubel has taken the vow of wealth.  I believe this has huge implications for all of us.  It opens a path by inspiration and example.  Read the FAQ too.
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		<title>Wall St Journal covers the currency revolution?</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2009/09/09/id-129</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2009/09/09/id-129#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The meme of coming multi-currency world is beginning to be visible to the main stream.  To see how, watch this Wall Street Journal tech video by Andy Jordan.  Not only is yours truly and the MetaCurrency project shown (I&#8217;m not really an economist BTW), but also some other nice efforts that show the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Jacobs: The Nature of Economies</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2009/03/29/id-73</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2009/03/29/id-73#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just 10 minutes ago finished Jane Jacobs, The Nature of Economies, and I just have to write about it.
I am totally stunned, and deeply sad that I never was able to meet her.  In this book she speaks directly to me from beyond the grave completely confirming the approach I have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Economy</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/11/04/id-70</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/11/04/id-70#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I gave a presentation on rethinking money at UMass Amherst for a course Julie Graham is teaching called Rethinking Economy. Julie does some very interesting work on community economies.
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		<title>econophysics and community currency</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/09/03/id-67</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/09/03/id-67#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[econophysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[os-earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been introduced to the field of econophysics and I&#8217;ve read an interesting the review paper on the field.  My thoughts on this paper is that it&#8217;s very good news for the community currency movement, if understood properly.Â For a long time when talking about cc, I&#8217;ve been using the little thought experiment of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mexico</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/03/05/id-62</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/03/05/id-62#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in mexico, and it&#8217;s the start of the third day of theÂ open money intensive. Â This is an incredible experience of the expansion of the open money vision that&#8217;s been in gestation for so long and is now being Â birthed. Â More soon!
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		<title>wealth literacy</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/02/16/id-60</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/02/16/id-60#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
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		<title>why i am working on open money</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/07/id-58</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/07/id-58#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[collective intelligence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/07/id-58</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve had opportunity to reflect on why I&#8217;m particularly dedicated to the open money path out of all the many different community currency paths. 
I offer it here not in the spirit of saying open money is better than other approaches, but rather just to share my understanding and what motivates me to work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on language and wealth acknowledgment</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/05/id-57</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/05/id-57#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a discussion today with Jean-FranÃ§ois about the content of my previous post, he described another very important way of thinking about the evolution of writing from pictographs to alphabets and ideograms.  Namely that the step taken was from a system in which representations could be created, to a system in which information can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the cost of lies</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/30/id-56</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/30/id-56#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today it occurs to me that one way of describing inflation is that it is a tax on falsehood.  Most of the taxes we pay are explicitly levied in some way or another.  Inflation is the implicit tax that we pay through the structure of the monetary system itself, because of the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language, Money and Wealth Acknowledgment</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/05/id-55</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/05/id-55#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Abram, in his book The Spell of the Sensuous, describes the history of written language and its evolution from pictographic directly representational symbolic system to an abstract phonemic system.  He describes the incredible intellectual leap taken by some scribe who realized that the symbol doesn&#8217;t actually need to have ANY visual resemblance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the &#8220;elevator-pitch&#8221; for community currencies</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/05/14/id-53</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/05/14/id-53#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 14:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[open money]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a skype chat I&#8217;m on that discusses community currencies, that recently was trying to find &#8220;the ultimate elevator pitch&#8221; for community currencies.  This is a very reasonable request as all of us working in this area are frequently asked to describe what we are up to succinctly.  Here&#8217;s my post to that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>confucianism, standards, and culture</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/02/14/id-47</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/02/14/id-47#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I talked about how there are two different kinds of trust, and how important that is to understanding what needs to happen in the currency world.  Here is a fantastic essay on confucianism technical standards and culture, which gets to the same essential pattern but in a different arena.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>community currency and trust</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/12/12/id-40</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/12/12/id-40#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When ever I introduce people to the idea of community currencies, I have experienced that the question of trust comes up again and again. This is reasonable, but I&#8217;m quite convinced that the breadth and depth of what trust is, is very poorly understood.  Trust seems to be a word that, in the case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo gets into the community currency game</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/09/14/id-37</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/09/14/id-37#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like yahoo is getting into the community currency game with Yootles.  A quick read of the their FAQ indicates a highly &#8220;economics&#8221; based approach.  Also I don&#8217;t see an indication of the meta understanding that what&#8217;s necessary is to provide a playing field for people to create currencies, rather than just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Currency &#8220;Equity&#8221; (Yet another community currency metaphor)</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/08/30/id-36</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/08/30/id-36#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/08/30/id-36</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s a rental.&#8221; That&#8217;s what we say when we drive that Hertz car smack through a pot hole.  The difference between how people keep up rented appartments and owned homes is a standard trope in our culture.  We understand that people feel and behave differently about things that they own.
The same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>another currency metaphor</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/08/23/id-32</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/08/23/id-32#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my on-going quest for good metaphors and ways of thinking about the community/multi-currency world, an excellent metaphor came to me that is useful when talking about all this with programmers:
federal currency = global variables
community currency = local variables
Writing software with only global variables is not impossible, but their &#8220;liquidity&#8221; (i.e. the fact that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phronesis and the Internet: the Process Revolution</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/07/11/id-30</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/07/11/id-30#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned about the Aristotelean intellectual virtue of phronesis along with the related term episteme a few years back from Kathryn Montgomery in discussions about her book How Doctors Think. Episteme is the scientific rationality we are all quite familiar with. Phronesis is usually translated &#8220;practical wisdom&#8221; and is the kind of rational skill doctors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viral Communications</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/07/07/id-29</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/07/07/id-29#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just read Andrew Lippman and David Reed&#8217;s paper on Viral Communications. It&#8217;s quite insightful.  Two things:

I&#8217;ve said it before, but &#8220;Intelligence at the Leaves&#8221; for currency is what the open money project is all about.  Currency is the centralized communication tool that needs to undergo the same process that Lippman and Reed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BALLE presentation on open money</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/06/27/id-25</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2006/06/27/id-25#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the power-point version of the presentation on open money I gave at the local currency preconference to the BALLE gathering in Burlington last month. The presentation came after a full day of folks like Bernard Lietaer and Tom Greco excellently setting stage by explaining how our current monetary system is both unstable and the [...]]]></description>
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