Building the Credit Commons with Mutual Credit Clubs: Matthew Slater @GrowingtheCommons

Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

This is the second in a series of interviews that will accompany a book I'm writing, that will be published by Chelsea Green - an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that book is describing, built around a mutual credit core.

Matthew Slater wrote the Credit Commons white paper – an idea for federating mutual credit networks to create a new global, moneyless trading system He’s part of a group called Mutual Credit Services (MCS), formed to build this federation.

Introduction to mutual credit: https://www.lowimpact.org/lowimpact-t...
More on the book: https://www.lowimpact.org/book-deal-n...
Mutual Credit Services: https://mutualcredit.services/
Credit Commons: creditcommons.net
Chelsea Green: chelseagreen.com
Transcript of this interview, with more links: lowimpact.org/building-the-credit-commons-with-mutual-credit-clubs-matthew-slater

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