Comments on: Stamp Scrip

By: Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › The Tale of the Traitorous Story

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:41:24 +0000

[...] era “stamp scrip” a variant of local currency that, to hear tell, actually works. In that posting I quoted a story about the surprising, amusing, helpful role that a high velocity currency can [...]

By: Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › California to issue warrants?

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:24:32 +0000

[...] see from the news that California may issue registered warrants or what as a work around for not having the cash to pay their bills. The newspaper men are [...]

By: Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › Gift cards to the rescue

Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › Gift cards to the rescue — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:08:09 +0000

[...] wrote a while back about how some of the local currency systems established in the depression were explicitly designed to assure that people didn’t just stick the money under their [...]

By: Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › Daisy Chains of IOUs

Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › Daisy Chains of IOUs — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:25:59 +0000

[...] I originally read this story in a fun pamphlet on local script currency systems it triggered a reminding of an old Mad Magazine bit about the kids in the high school all trying to [...]

By: Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm » Blog Archive » Trash Picking Coupons

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:37:23 +0000

[...] the gloss of green combined with the personal data collection. And finally, as I learned from the stamp script, coupons are all about increasing transaction velocity – and isn’t it wonderful how this [...]