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Banking 101 - How money and banking actually works

Josef Davies-Coates

Aug 1, 2013 • 1 min read
Banking 101 - How money and banking actually works

This great little collection of videos is the clearest and most authoritative introduction to exactly how the monetary and banking system in the UK actually works.  It is based on the excellent book ‘Where Does Money Come From?’ published by the Positive Money campaign and the new economics foundation

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Co-produce something tangible as a group of equal peers

Co-produce something tangible as a group of equal peers

I <3 the Participatory City [http://www.participatorycity.org/] Foundation’s “ Every One Every Day [https://www.weareeveryone.org/]” initiative. There is so much wisdom baked into their approach, wonderfully summed up as creating as many opportunities as possible for people to: > Co-produce something tangible as a group

Josef Davies-Coates Oct 19, 2017 • 1 min read
What if... Co-operatives UK had £70 million a year?

What if... Co-operatives UK had £70 million a year?

This article was originally written for Issue 14 of STIR, the magazine for the new economy and was also published online at Co-operatives UK What if…? blog that fed into the UK National Co-operative Development Strategy. I recently noticed that blog has since gone offline and so have re-posted the

Josef Davies-Coates Sep 27, 2017 • 5 min read
Open Co-ops: Inspirations, Legal Structure and Tools

Open Co-ops: Inspirations, Legal Structure and Tools

this post originally appeared in Stir Magazine [https://www.stirtoaction.com/magazine] illustration by Daksheeta Pattni [https://www.daksheetapattni.com/] In 2002 I described United Diversity [https://uniteddiversity.coop] as “a member owned and stakeholder governed network of mutual advantage.” In truth, it was aspirational. At the time, the flexible

Josef Davies-Coates Aug 14, 2014 • 10 min read
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