ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the correlations between the circulation of a community currency and the money consciousness among participants of the community currency. Two results of the questionnaire survey analysis are explained: the difference of money consciousness between community currency participants and financial organisation participants, and the difference of money consciousness in various currency systems. The chapter discusses these differences from the viewpoint of the micro-meso-macro loop in the circulation of community currencies. Three different types of mutually determining loops exist: between the micro and macro level, between the micro and meso level, and between the meso and macro level. The chapter describes the questionnaire survey in Japan, Argentina, Canada, Brazil and Italy by snowball sampling method and over 500 people responded. It argues that the micro-meso-macro loop framework is useful in designing a CC system that includes changes in people's consciousness, although only the relationship between the micro and meso levels.
