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 | | While working on the abridgement of Plinge’s essay, I read with interest an open E-letter on the subject of commodity linked exchanges from Michael Rowbotham, author of The Grip of Death and Goodbye America (Jon Carpenter, 1998 and 2000). |
 | | In the E-letter, to Chris Keene, Coordinator of the Anti-Globalisation Network - chris.keene@which.net, Michael writes that aligning currencies according to commodity prices was a key element in the International Clearing Union proposals that British economist John Maynard Keynes brought to the table at the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire in 1944. |
 | | Walt Plinge knows that, yet brings into play in the essay that I have abridged an element of fun, without which, I would say, there is no point to change — and anyway no chance of the needed break through to a global economy grounded in local exchange currencies that people can delight in. |
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