Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s Credit and Social Money (1809–1865)

Nathalie Ferreira

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Abstract

Even if experiments in social currencies occupy the forefront of the recent economic scene, these new forms of trade come from a long historical lineage of monetary experiments considered as utopian and/or socialist. By using a social currency from the 19th century (the zero-interest credit) as an instrument of monetary system reform, P. J. Proudhon seems to have proposed the theoretical bases explaining the existence of social currencies today.

Keywords

  • reform of the monetary system
  • the mutual and free credit
  • the bank of exchange
  • the bank of the people
  • social currency