One of the very earliest land bank/mutual bank documents is available online: The Key of Wealth: Or, A New Way for Improving of Trade, by William Potter (1650).
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Reading around / Dyer D. Lum’s Alarm
I’ve been reading pretty broadly lately, pulling together articles related to the Liberty archive project and Utopia, OH, the Josiah Warren anthology. That’s taken me into the pages of The Egoist, where Benjamin Tucker, Bolton […]
Anarchism
Co-operation – Alfred B. Westrup
[Alfred B. Westrup, “Co-operation,” Twentieth Century, November 3, 1892, 8-9.—This is a very interesting short piece by Westrup, showing a slightly different side of his individualist anarchism than in many of his writings, where the […]
anarchist mutualism
1850: The Hotbed of Mutual Banking Agitation
In the years 1849 and 1850, William B. Greene published Equality and Mutual Banking, describing his Christian Mutualism and setting out the details of the real estate based mutual bank. He was at that time, […]