Ideologies / Mutualist / William Batchelder Greene
§ The minds · 1819–1878 · United States · Theorist & minister
William Batchelder Greene
Mutual banking
Free credit for the people.
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Governance−70
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The minister and theorist who adapted Proudhon's free-credit ideas for America, advocating mutual banks that would lend at cost and break the monopoly of money.
social
Reform-minded individualist.
economic
Mutual banks to provide interest-free credit to workers.
governance
Decentralised, voluntary financial association.
Notable for
- 'Mutual Banking'
- Free-credit advocacy
- Bridged Proudhon to US mutualism
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