Leanne Ussher

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Monetary Theorist and Economist

Ussher Publications Complementary Currencies and international aid. I believe the Assets in Common book and your own Common Cents Fund, has a lot in common with Dil Green's commons housing project. Dil was also at the CoFi event along with Will Ruddick, and various others. Together we are trying to solve mutual aid issues in sovereign or semi closed communities.

My own intuition is that like the Assets in Common book, which has some simple flow diagrams, the way to design these neighborhood economic systems is to model the flows in a network of indirect reciprocity. Michael Marks and I are doing some research on this for the Hudson Valley Current, over the next couple of months.

I was previously an economics professor at Bard College, and there one of my students started up a group, in Kingston Thrive On We worked a lot together on community economics and local currencies. I think he would love to attend your NC conference and I'll let him know about the dates.