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More Than Money

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It's increasingly clear that we live in collaborative times. Many of the most interesting innovations of recent years have at their heart ideas of sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, exchanging or swapping. These are age-old concepts being reinvented through network technologies and a cultural shift driven by the more civic minded millennial generation.

This report was commissioned in an attempt to learn the lessons from the past and to provide a framework for understanding the many different approaches to complementary currencies and other platforms for reciprocal exchange.

Published:
November 2011

Author:
David Boyle

Discussion paper

More Than Money Literature Review thumbnail [original]This literature review brings together the existing evidence of impact across reciprocal exchange systems.

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Innovation in Giving

Arrow icon green [original]Find out more about the £10m fund supporting ideas with potential to deliver a significant increase in the giving and exchange of time, assets, skills, resources and money