LETS Act Locally
The growth of Local Exchange Trading Systems
Jonathan Croall
1997
With Local Exchange Trading Systems people don’t need conventional money to buy and sell goods and services. Instead they can create their own currency and wealth, enabling them to develop their own skills, enhance their social lives and also improve the local economy. This report explores both the benefits and the problems, and shows how LETS are expanding into crucial areas such as housing, mental health, food, education and the arts.
In LETS Act Locally Jonathan Croall visited groups in city, town and country, exploring both the benefits and the problems, and the ways in which LETS can affect people’s lives economically, socially and psychologically. The book also shows how LETS are expanding into crucial areas such as housing, mental health, food, education and the arts, and considers whether the LETS idea can grow and develop in the twenty-first century.
‘… an enormously informative account of this movement.’ Freedom
Jonathan Croall is a freelance journalist and theatrical biographer. He has worked in publishing, has been Features Editor of the Times Educational Supplement, and editor and co-founder of Arts Express magazine. He is the author of plays, a children’s novel Sent Away, and several books on education, health and arts subjects, on which he writes for a number of national newspapers. He has also written Preserve or Destroy: Tourism and the Environment for the Gulbenkian Foundation and Gielgud: A theatrical life (Methuen).