Susan Witt
Susan Witt is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, creator of the SHARE micro-credit program, and co-founder of the BerkShares local currency program.
Local Finance Made Simple
The nature of money is to abstract value. That is its role. It stands in place of an actual good or service. If I fail to have the basket of potatoes you are seeking in exchange for the wool from your sheep, I can instead pay for the wool in dollars or BerkShares or Brixton…