SD14. LOCAL EXCHANGE & TRADING SCHEMES (LETs) (& TIME BANKS)
(updated: March 3, 2006 )

*indicates most useful and/or up to date references
OFL = Ordered for Library - please check University Library catalogue for latest on availability:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/

Aldridge, T.J & Patterson, A, 2002, 'LETS get real: constraints on the development of Local Exchange Trading Schemes', Area 34 (4), pp370-381
Aldridge, T.J & Patterson, A, 2003, 'Trading places: geography and the role of Local Exchange Trading Systems in local sustainable development', Chapter 8 in Buckingham, Susan & Theobald, Kate, 2003, 'Local environmental sustainability', Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge. ISBN 1 85573 685 3 (GF50 LOC)

Anon, 2002, 'The Time of Our Lives: Using Time Banking for Neighbourhood Renewal and Communicyt Capacity-Building', October 2002, from tel. (020) 8986 5488 or email: mo@centralbooks.co.uk

Barnes, North & Walker, 1996, 'LETS on Low Income', New Economics Foundation, London.

Barry, John & Proops, John, 1998, 'Local Employment and Trading Systems: Linking Citizenship and Sustainability', Global Environmental Change Briefing 18, 18.3.98.
Barry, John & Proops, John, 2000, 'Citizenship, Sustainability and Environmental Research: Q Methodology and Local Exchange and Trading Systems', Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. ISBN 1 84064 253X

*Barton, Hugh (ed.), 1999, 'Sustainable Communities: the potential for Eco-Neighbourhoods', Earthscan, London. ISBN 1853836192. (GP5511.SUS)

Batchler, John, 2003, 'More than tea and biscuits; the role of time banks and lets in local economic development', Local Economy 18 (3), August, p253
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=V8UMGE3XVMPWAK5M

Boyle, David, 1997, 'The rise of local currencies', Town and Country Planning 66 (1), pp11-13
Boyle, David, 1999, 'Local Exchange: Ethical Money rolls up its sleeves', Town and Country Planning 68 (3), March.
Boyle, David, 1999, 'Local Exchange: Reinventing the magic of banks', Town and Country Planning, 68 (5), May.
Boyle, David, 1999, 'Local Exchange - OK, who has their feet most firmly on the ground?', Town and Country Planning 68 (10), October.
Boyle, David, 1999, 'Funny Money in Search of alternative Cash', Harper Collins
Boyle, David, 2000, 'Local Exchange: The upside-down new economics', Town and Country Planning 69 (5), May.
Boyle, David, 2000, 'Local Exchange: Money for the new city-states', Town and Country Planning 69 6), June.
Boyle, David, 2000, 'Finding the money for feelgood' (timebanks), Town and Country Planning 69 (7/8), July/August.
Boyle, David, 2000, 'Why London needs its own currency', New Economics Foundation, London.
Boyle, David, 2001, 'Buddy, can you spare me a euro?', Town and Country Planning 70 (1), January.
Boyle, David, 2001, 'What we can learn from the Third World' (developing the world's tradition of healthy currencies), Town and Country Planning 70 (2), February, p67.
Boyle, David, 2001, 'Local Exchange: Watching the volunteering charities carve up the world', Town and Country Planning 70 (3), p96.
Boyle, David, 2001, 'What happens if the Euro slips below the radar?' (the eruo, the pound and why two currencies are not enough), Town and Country Planning 70 (5), May, p153.
Boyle, David, 2001, 'Linking it up in the West Country', Town and Country Planning 70 (6), June, p189.
Boyle, David, 2001, 'Spending time to aid communities', (time banks and community renewal), Regeneration & Renewal, 3.8.01, p12.
Boyle, David, ?2001, 'Learning from the supermarkets of Benos Aires' (Global Bernter Network), Town and Country Planning 70 (7/8), July/August., p223.
Boyle, David, 2001, 'Introducing a London-wide currency to rebuild communities', Town and Country Planning 70 (9), p253.
Boyle, David, 2001, 'Local Exchange: Pastacon, patacon, baker's man', Town and Country Planning 70 (10), October, p284.
Boyle, Dav id, 2002, 'Trying to dodge the control freaks', Town and Country Planning, September 71 (9), p220.
Boyle, David, 2002, 'Mixing the dough' (the potential of complementary currencies), (Forum for the Future) Green Futures, November/December, pp38-41.
Boyle, David, 2002, 'The Money-Changers', Earthscan, London.
Boyle, David, 2003, 'The time machine' (progress and setbacks with time banks), Regeneration & Renewal, 16.5.03, pp18-19.
Boyle, David, 2003, 'The new mutualism and the meaning of time banks', Local Economy 18 (3), August, p253,
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=Q69AE1237BU775D7
Boyle, David, 2004, 'The Little Money Book', Alastair Sawday, http://www.fragile-earth.com

Buckingham, Susan & Theobald, Kate, 2003, 'Local environmental sustainability', Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge. ISBN 1 85573 685 3 (OFL on 21.2.03)

Burman, David, ?1998, 'Enhancing Community Health Promotion With Local Currencies: The Local Employment and Trading System' (LETS), Chapter 5 in Roseland, Mark, (ed.) 'Eco-City Dimensions: Healthy Cities, Healthy Planet; New Society Publishers, Canada

Callison, Stuarrt, 2003, 'All you need is love"? assessing time banks as a tool for sustainable economic development', Local Economy 18 (3), August, p264,
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=C9RP38BV2FXQT3LT

Croall, Jonathan, 1997, 'Act locally: the Growth of LETs', Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London.
Croall, Jonathan, 1998, 'Seeking Sustainability: Discourses with Q-Methodology', Ecological Economics.
Croall, Jonathan, 1998, 'LETS Locally and the Growth of LETS', Journal of Rural Studies 15 (1), November.
Croall, Jonathan, 1999, 'Local, mutual, voluntary and simple: the power of local exchange trading systems', in Worpole, K (ed), 1999, 'Richer Futures: Fashioning a New Politics', Earthscan, London.

Davis-Smith, J, 1998, 'The 1976 National Survey of Volunteering', National Centre for Volunteering, London.

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) (June 1997 - June 2001 -
replaced from June 2001 to May 2002 by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions; DETR)
- website: http://www.detr.gov.uk
'Community-Based Regeneration Initiatives', ?DETR, May 1998. (OFL)

Dobson, Ross V.G., 1993, 'Bringing the Economy Home from the Market', (on Local Employment and Trading Systems; LETs), Black Rose Books, London.

Douthwaite, R, 1996, 'Short Circuit: strengthening local economies for security in an unstable world', Green Books, Totnes, Devon.

Economic and Social Research Council, 2001, 'Impact of the Time Bank Networks' (?exact title) Report for the New Economics Foundation, NEF, Lonodn, tel. (020) 7089 2849, September.

ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme (University of Sussex), 1998, 'Global Environmental Change Programme Briefing 18, 'Local Employment and Trading Systems: Linking Citizenship and Sustainability? (by John Barry & John Proop), March 1998, ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme (University of Sussex), Mantell Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RF, tel. (01273) 678935, fax. (01273) 604483, email: a.h.scott@sussex.ac.uk

*Forum for the Future Local Economy Programme, 1999, 'Making LETS work in Low Income Areas', Forum for the Future, London.

Greco, T, 1994, 'New Money for Healthy Communities', Thomas J Greco, Jnr., Tucson, USA.

Hudson, H, Newby, L & Hutchinson, N with Harding, L, 1999, 'Making LETS work in low income areas', Forum for the Future Local Economy Programme, London.

Lang, Peter, 1994, 'Lets work: Rebuilding the Local Economy', Grower Books, Swanley, Kent.
Lang, Peter, 1993, 'Ethical Investment: A Saver's Guide', Second International Water Tribunal, 'The Case Books', IWT.

Leach, Nigel & Knight, Steven, 1997, 'LETS: Transformation or Trash?,' Local Environment News, 3 (1), January.

Lee, R, 1996, 'Moral money? :LETS and the social construction of economic geographies in south east England', Environment and Planning A, 28, pp1377-1394

Linton, M, 1986, 'Local currency', in Ekins, P (ed.) 'The Living Economy: a new economics in the making', Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.

Newby, Les, 1999, 'From the suburbs to the streets: a worthwhile journey for LETS?', Local Environment News 5 (1), January

New Economics Foundation (NEF), London, tel. (020) 7407 7447:
- website: http://www.neweconomics.org
'Time Banks: A Radical Manifesto for the UK', July 2001.
'London Time Bank: Buidling London's Social Capital',June 2003 and on the NEF website.

North, Peter, 1996, 'LETS: a Policy for Community Empowerment in the Inner City?', Local Economy, vol. II no. 3.
North, Peter, 1998, 'LETS', 'Hours' and the 'Swiss Business Ring': Alternative Currency Systems and Business Developments', Local Environment 13 (2), August.
North, Peter, 1999, 'Explorations in heterogeneous topics: LETS and the micropolitics of money', Society and Space 17 (1), February.
North, Peter, 2003, 'Time banks - learning the lessons from LETS?', Local Economy 18 (3), August, p267,
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=LP752BG12R9W8J3B

O'Doherty, R; Purdue, D; Durrschmidt, J & Jowers, P, 1997, 'Cultural Innovation in Alternative Milieux: LETS as CED', Regional Studies Association: Community Economic Development, Proceedings of the Annual Conference, November 24-27.

Pacione, M., 1997, 'LETS - A Rural response to the globalisation of capitalism', Journal of Rural Studies, 13 (4).
Pacione, M, 1997, 'Local Exchange Trading Systems as a Response to the Globalisation of Capitalism', Urban Studies 34 (8), pp1179-99.
Pacione, M, 1999, 'The other side of the coin: local currency as a response to the globalization of capita', Regional Studies 33, pp63-72

Pearce, John & Wadhams, Chris, 1998, 'Uncommon Currencies: LETs and their impact on property Repair and maintenance for ow-income homeowners', The Policy Press, Bristol, ISBN 1 86134 078 8, £11.95.

Purdue, D; Durrschmidt, J; Jowers, P & O'Doherty, R, 1997, 'DIY culture and Extended Milieux: LETS, Veggie Boxes and Festivals', The Sociological Review 45 (4), pp645-667.

Ramsden, Peter & Sattar, Danyal, 2000, 'Banking on Culture' (new loan systems for funding arts and culture), report for the European Commission and the North West Arts Board, c.f. http://www.bankingonculture.com

Richards, Carole, 1999, 'LETS save money' (Stroud LETS), (Friends of the Earth) Earth Matters, Issue no. 43, Summer.

Robbins, Celia, 1997, 'A New Approach to Regeneration: LETs as Local Authority Policy', Regional Studies Association: Community Economic development linking the Grassroots to Regional Economic Development, Proceedings of the Annual Conference, November, pp34-36.

Somesert County Council, 2001, 'Let's Make Time', Somerset County Council, Taunton, June.

Seyfang, G.J, 1996, 'Local Exchange Trading Schemes and Sustainable Development', 38 (2), pp44-45
Seyfang, G, 1997, 'Creating Community Currencies: LETs Building Sustainable Local Economies', in Regional Studies Association: Community Economic development linking the Grassroots to Regional Economic Development, Proceedings of the Annual Conference, November.
Seyfang Gill, 2001, 'Greening the economy, one trade at a time' (case study of a LETS scheme), Town and Country Planning 70 (7/8), July/August., pp216-217.
Seyfang Gill, 2001, 'Community curencies: small change for a green economy', Environment and Planning A, 33 (6).
Seyfang Gill, 2001, 'Money that makes a change', gender and Development 9 (1), pp60-69.
Seyfang Gill, 2001, 'Working for the Fenland Dollar', Work, Employment & society 15 (3).
Seyfang, Gill, 2001, 'Re-stitching the social fabric, one favour at a time' (development and potential of time banks in the UK), Town and Country Planning 70 (9), pp251-252
Seyfang, Gill & Smith, K, 2002, 'The Time of Our Lives: Using Time Banking for Neighbourhood Renewal and Community Capacity Buillding', New Economics Foundation, London
Seyfang, Gill, 2003, ''With a little help from my friends: Evaluating time banks as a tool for community self-help', Local Economy 18 (3), August, p257,
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=EXYGTE4VYVDJK0J9

Stott, Martin & Hodges, J, 1996, 'Local Exchange Trading Schemes: never knowingly undersold?', Local Economy 11, pp266-258

Thorne, L, 1996, 'Local Exchange Trading Schemes in the United Kingdom: a case of rembedding', Environment and Planning A, 18, pp1361-1378

Tibbett, R, 1997, 'Alternative currencies: a challenge to globalisation?>', New Political Economy 2 (1), pp127-135

Tickell, Oliver, 1998, 'LETS on a leash', Green Futures (Forum for the Future), September/October.

University of East Anglia, Norwich
'The Time of Our lives: Using time banking for neighbourhood renewal and community capacity building', ?2002, ISBN 1 899407553.

Walker, Perry, 1997, 'Low-income LETS - difficult but possible', Town and Country Planning 66 (2), February.

Williams, Colin C., 1995, 'Trading favours in Calderdale', Town and Country Planning 4 (8), August.
Williams, Colin C., 1995, 'Local Exchange and Trading Systems in the UK: Results of the 1995 LETS Coordinators Survey,' CUDEM Working Paper 24, Leeds Metropolitan University, LeedWilliams, Colin, 1996, 'The re-emergence of local currencies', Town and Country Planning 64 (12), pp329-332
Williams, Colin C., 1995, 'The emergence of local currencies' (national survey of LETS schemes), Town and Country Planning 64 (12), December.
Williams, Colin, 1996, 'Informal sector solutions to unemployment: an evaluation of the potential of Local Exchange and Trading Systems (LETS), Work, Employment and Society 19 (2), pp341-359
Williams, Colin, 1996, 'Local Exchange and Trading Systems (LETS): a new source of work and credit for the poor and unemployed?', Environment and Planning A 28 (8), pp1395-1415
Williams, Colin, 1996, 'Local Purchasing Schemes and Rural Development: an evaluation of Local Exchange and Trading systems (LETS), Journal of Rural Studies 12 (3), pp231-244
Williams, Colin, 1996, 'An appraisal of Local Exchange and Trading systems (LETS) in the United Kingdom', Local Economy 11 (3), pp259-266
Williams, Colin, 1996, 'The New Barter economy: An Appraisal of Local Exchange and Trading Systems (LETS)', Journal of Public Policy 16 (4), pp85-101.
Williams, Colin, 1998, 'Helping People to Help Themselves: the Potential of LETS', Policy Paper no. 14, Political Economy Research Unit, University of Sheffield, Sheffield..
Williams, Colin C, 2000, 'Paving the third Way? Evaluating the potential of LETS' (employment and welfare potential of LETS), Town and Country Planning 69 (3), March.
Williams, Colin, 2000, 'LETS and Social Exclusion' (?exact title), at http://www.geog.qmw.ac.uk/lets or contact email: ccw3@le.ac.uk
Williams, Colin C, 2000, 'Are local currencies an effective tool for tackling social exclusion?', Town and Country Planning 69 (11), November.
Williams, Colin C & Windebank, Jan, 2000, 'Rebuilding social capital in deprived urban neighbourhoods', Town and Country Planning 69 (12), December.
Williams, Colin C, Aldridge, Theresa; Lee, Roger Lee; Leyshon, Andrew; Thrift, Nigel & Tooke, Jayne, 2001, 'Bridges into Work? An Evaluation of Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS)', Policy Studies (Carfax Publishing / Taylor & Francis Group) 22 (2), June, pp119-132.
Williams, Colin C, Aldridge, Theresa;;Lee, Roger Lee; Leyshon, Andrew; Thrift, Nigel & Tooke, Jayne, 2001, 'Bridges into Work? An Evaluation of Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS)', The Policy Press, Bristol.
Williams, Colin C, 2002, 'Time to reward active citizenship' (transferability of US time bank scheme sto the UK), Town and Country Planning 71 (6), June, pp172-173.
Williams, Colin C, 2003, 'Can I have it in cash?', (possible beneficiaries of attempts to eradicate the cash-in-hand economy), Town and Country Planning 72 (10), November, pp322-323
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*Worpole, Ken & Greenhaight, Liz, 1999?, 'The Richness of Cities' (Final Report), Comedia / Demos, tel. (01509) 890068.
*Worpole, Ken (ed.), 1999, 'Richer Futures: Fashioning a New Politics' (including a cjhapter by J. Croall on 'The Power of Local Exchange and Trading Systems'), Earthscan, London. ISBN 1 85383 539 0 (pb) / 1 85383 538 2 (Hb)