Robert Swann's Essays:

Essential Essays:

• Local Currencies: Catalysts for Sustainable Regional Economies (with Susan Witt)
• Los Dineros Locales: Catalizadores de Economias Regionales Sustenables (con Susan Witt)
• Land: the Challenge and the Opportunity (with Susan Witt)

Early Essays on Local Currencies:

• Action for Development
• Appropriate Currency
• Proposal for a Local Village Monetary System Based on Trusteeship
• Building a Community Banking System
• Community Survival in the Age of Inflation
• Energy, Petrocurrency, and the World's Future
• Establishing an Alternative Independent Currency
• The Need for Community Based Credit Systems
• New World Bank and Currency Proposal
• Notes on Local Village Currency: Labor Standard of Value Versus Commodity Standard of Value
• The Place for Local Currency in a World Economy: Toward an Economy of Permanence
• Proposal for a Decentralized Alternative Monetary System
• The Role of Local Currency in Regional Economic Development
• Rural Credit as a Key to Development: A Report on a Mexican Experiment
• Statement of Credit of the International Independence Institute
• A World Currency Based on Community Land Trust Resources
• The World Monetary System

Essays on Community Land Trusts:

• Land Trusts as part of a Threefold System for Regional Integration
• Introduction to the 1972 Edition of The Community Land Trust Handbook
• Alternatives to Ownership: Land Trusts as Land Reform
• Land, Land Trusts, and Employment

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