Eksperyment walutowy. Wymiennik – w stronę oddolnej ekonomii
The Currency Experiment. Wymiennik – Towards a Grassroots Economy

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents Wymiennik – an alternative economic system created in 2012in Warsaw, which uses a grassroots and virtual local currency called alterka.The author discusses the reading inspirations of the Wymiennik participants andtheir lifestyle to determine how the perceptions of the optimal shape of the nonmonetary exchange system relate to the real practice of its functioning. The paperdescribes the users’ motivations to participate in the system and the needs it fulfils.The sources of knowledge about the Wymiennik are: twelve in-depth interviews withusers and system leaders, discourse analysis and two-year participant observation.

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