Sistemas monetarios heterodoxos” La experiencia de las UDIS (Unidades de Intercambio Solidario) en la parroquia Sinincay del cantón Cuenca Ecuador período 2010 – 2012

Abstract

The practices of monetary alternative systems in the world have been diverse throughout the twentieth century and bit less than the current one. They (these practices) are based largely on the theoretical proposals of Silvio Gesell that were valued positively by known economic authors as Irving Fisher. These proposals mainly emerge as a result of critiques and failures found in the dynamics of the conventional monetary system which also look for being a quota to soften the effects generated by an economic crisis. At the beginning of 2010 century, in Ecuador it came to introduce an alternative monetary scheme in Sinincay, a rural parish of Cuenca city of the Azuay province, across a currency called Unidades de Intercambio Solidario (UDIS). This research study shows the reasons why the project did not have the generally effect as in other given in different places; from the subjective perceptions of the actors of the system. The explanation of the decline was found due to the disuse of this currency system, mainly because it was a project applied under scenes and conditions that did not justified a monetary alternative scheme, according to Jürgen Schuldt's postulates, besides the internal and external factors to the parish that influenced the little acceptance of the scheme, among which it is possible to mention: poor understanding of its operation by users and promoters; the limited supply of goods and services to be acquired within this circuit of trading; the preference for the dollar as legal tender; the media boom that emerged at that in the country, among others.