From: "John Zube" To: "Thomas H. Greco, Jr." Subject: 020827 Thomas H. Greco Re: WIR & FB writing collaboration Date: Tuesday, 27 August 2002 9:05 PM Dear Thomas, sorry, but I seem to have only some German writings on WIR. My father, according to himself one of the main initiators of WIR, was edged out of the project, mainly, according to him, by Werner Zimmerman. For this he had, probably, largely himself to blame for he had a domineering nature and always pretended that his ideas and his knowledge was greater and more relevant than that of others. Perhaps, unconsciously or unintentionally, in my own wordings, the same impression may come across to others. I am not sufficiently polished in my utterances and behavior by enough social intercourse with like-interested other people, with other ideas and opinions. By now I am probably too old and too busy with other projects, more important to me, to change. Sorry also for my long silence. I was busy getting another batch of PEACE PLANS ready, doing some searches, printing out, adding to my list for the CD-ROM project etc. Numerous other projects remain neglected. My second son, also a Thomas, often asks me whether I have finally managed to clean up one square meter, the first one, in my house! I always seem to have another project that is more accute and interesting to me. The verandah remains unfinished. The roof still leaks sometimes. The ditch for a new water pipe remains to be completely dug, etc., etc. There are also some health problems and I have to wait ca. 2 months even for the mere tests to be done. But what long needed doing was the transcription of some accumulated notes on free banking, which I offer now, with still all too many flaws, as work in progress, in the attachment, in RTF. It comes to ca. 20 pages. Now, I could keep working on expanding this compilation for weeks, months, even years, without being able to reach, on my own, a satisfactory completion, by my own standards. Thus I offer this merely as an initial contribution towards possible collaboration between us, rather than continuing my long silence. More work will be done on this rather soon. but I cannot promise that I will manage another batch of 10 to 20 pages every week, regularly. An extension of these notes to about at least tenfold this volume would be likely, after a prolonged effort, including material from the sources I mentioned in my introduction. Whether it is suitable to be added to and corrected by you, for your purposes, has to be judged by you. For my own purposes alphabetized notes are helpful and will be extended. You may freely use it as raw material, as you like. I have not even listed my two peace books as possible sources for further entries of this kind. The earlier one, in its German version, is likely to finally appear in abbreviated and edited form through 2 German and a US classical liberals. Only 40 years late! I rather place my bets on finally offering it complete on a website and on CD-ROM, together with much else. But I do not expect much if anything in effects from just another one or two books, even if they are my own. Also, books that are published only with minimum investment and only upon demand, do not get the benefit of extensive and expensive advertising by a publisher who has invested much and wants to cover at least his considerable expenses, including the advertising costs. But the conventional publishing of such books in considerable impressions is a rather risky enterprise. Thus on-demand publishing is much more sensible. I renounced any royalty claims but reserved the right to publish the book complete, as I already do, in PP 399-401 on microfiche and also via e-mail, floppy, website and on CD. All relevant literature should be finally made cheaply and permanently accessible, together with all discussions of it. For now just the attachment in RTF. (See: FBNotesAug02SortedRTF.rtf) The best wish of all: PIOT, John ========================================================================= ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas H. Greco, Jr." To: "Zube John" Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 8:27 AM Subject: WIR > John, > When I visited the Schumacher Society a few weeks ago, I copied an excellent > report on WIR written in 1971 by Erick Hansch. > Searching your index, I do not find it listed, nor anything else in English. > I'm surprised you did not acquire a copy of it when you visited there. Do you have anything else on it in English? > > WIR, despite its shortcomings and limitations, still looks like the best working prototype of a credit clearing system. I'd like to know how much it has had to change in recent yours in order to adapt to changing conditions and to government demands. > > When I am able to get some help, I'll have this paper typed up and I hope to post it on my new website. > > Tom >