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Ithaca Hours: Economy & Standards

The Ithaca HOUR was a local currency used in Ithaca, New York. It's no longer in active circulation. It was one of the longest-running local currency systems, having operated from 1991 into the 2010s, and inspired other similar systems in Madison, Wisconsin; Santa Barbara, California; Corvallis, Oregon; and a proposed system in the Lehigh Valley…

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Ithaca Hours topic overview

The analysis highlights Economy and Standards as prominent areas in the source structure around Ithaca Hours.

Related topics
27
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
32
Extracted relationships
60
Concept neighborhoods
14
Bridge connections
32

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Origin · 13 topics
Overview · 7 topics
Management and philosophy · 4 topics
The currency · 2 topics
Economic development · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Central bank
Ithaca Hours, Inc
Date of introduction
November 1991
Date of withdrawal
Effectively discontinued in the 2010s
Pegged with
1 hour = US$10
Plural
hours
User(s)
Ithaca, New York, United States (formerly)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

The currency

Origin

Management and philosophy

Economic development

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Ithaca Hours connects Entity context

The extracted context around Ithaca Hours shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Ithaca Hours → Barter Potluck, Board, Directors, Glover, Hobbesian, In, In May, Inc, Ithaca Community News, Ithaca Health Alliance, Ithaca Health Fund, Ithaca HOUR, Last, March, October, The, There's, Thus Another extracted example is Ithaca Hours → After Ithaca HOURS, America, British, Glover, Great Depression, Hour, Josiah Warren's, November, Owen's Hours, Paul Glover, Robert Owen, The, Time Store, While. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Ithaca Hours

Top relations

related to Management and philosophy · 18
Ithaca Hours → Barter Potluck, Board, Directors, Glover, Hobbesian, In, In May, Inc, Ithaca Community News, Ithaca Health Alliance, Ithaca Health Fund, Ithaca HOUR, Last, March, October, The, There's, Thus
related to Origin · 14
Ithaca Hours → After Ithaca HOURS, America, British, Glover, Great Depression, Hour, Josiah Warren's, November, Owen's Hours, Paul Glover, Robert Owen, The, Time Store, While
related to Economic development · 7
Ithaca Hours → Alternatives Federal Credit Union, Businesses, Cayuga Medical Center, HOURS, One, Several, While
related to External links · 7
Ithaca Hours → Archived, History, Local CurrenciesCommunity Currency Online, Magazine, Official Ithaca Hours Website, Schumacher Society Local Currency, Wayback MachinePaul Glover's WebsiteE
related to The currency · 6
Ithaca Hours → AFCU, Alternatives Federal Credit Union, Each, HOURS, In, Steve Burke
.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal} Freq. used · 1
Ithaca Hours → .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .de…
Central bank · 1
Ithaca Hours → Ithaca Hours, Inc
Date of introduction · 1
Ithaca Hours → November 1991
Date of withdrawal · 1
Ithaca Hours → Effectively discontinued in the 2010s
Pegged with · 1
Ithaca Hours → 1 hour = US$10

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

hours ithaca glover local hour first currency 1991 system one used businesses accept board new york 10 notes october economic

Ithaca Hours relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 60 structured relationships around Ithaca Hours. Examples in this analysis include Ithaca Hours → .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal} Freq. used → .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .de… and Ithaca Hours → Central bank → Ithaca Hours, Inc. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Ithaca Hours.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal} Freq. used.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .de…1.00infobox
Ithaca HoursCentral bankIthaca Hours, Inc1.00infobox
Ithaca HoursDate of introductionNovember 19911.00infobox
Ithaca HoursDate of withdrawalEffectively discontinued in the 2010s1.00infobox
Ithaca HoursPegged with1 hour = US$101.00infobox
Ithaca HoursPluralhours1.00infobox
Ithaca HoursUser(s)Ithaca, New York, United States (formerly)1.00infobox
Ithaca Hourspart ofthat cosmos0.85text
Ithaca Hoursrelated to Economic developmentSeveral0.60section
Ithaca Hoursrelated to Economic developmentHOURS0.60section
Ithaca Hoursrelated to Economic developmentCayuga Medical Center0.60section
Ithaca Hoursrelated to Economic developmentAlternatives Federal Credit Union0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Ithaca Hours bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Hours, Ithaca and Glover. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Ithaca Hours
    • Hours
    • Ithaca
    • Glover
    • Local
    • First
    • Accept
    • Currency
    • System
    • Development
    • New
    • York
    • Board
  • ithaca hours
    • Hours
    • Ithaca
    • Glover
    • First
    • Local
    • Accept
    • Currency
    • System
    • Development
    • New
    • York
    • Board
  • local currency
    • Local
    • New
    • York
    • Used
    • One
    • 2010s
    • Us
    • Hours
    • Businesses
    • Development
    • Ithaca
    • Hour
  • ithaca, new york
    • New
    • York
    • Hours
    • Currency
    • Glover
    • Used
    • Local
    • First
    • 2010s
    • System
    • Development
    • Ithaca
  • ithaca health fund
    • Hours
    • Glover
    • Local
    • First
    • Currency
    • System
    • Development
    • New
    • York
    • Board
    • Used
    • November
  • ithaca health alliance
    • Hours
    • Glover
    • Local
    • First
    • Currency
    • System
    • Development
    • New
    • York
    • Board
    • Used
    • November
  • ithaca community news
    • Hours
    • Glover
    • Local
    • First
    • Currency
    • System
    • Development
    • New
    • York
    • Board
    • Used
    • November
  • paul glover
    • Ithaca
    • Hours
    • Economics
    • System
    • York
    • Hour
    • Board
    • Local
    • Glover
    • Half
    • Market
    • Paul

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Ithaca Hours, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Ithaca Hours with Origin. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Ithaca Hours — Origin · splits 19 ⟂ 14
Ithaca Hours — Overview · splits 25 ⟂ 8
Ithaca Hours — Management and philosophy · splits 28 ⟂ 5
Ithaca Hours — The currency · splits 30 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Ithaca Hours

Nodes33
Edges32
Triples60
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.060606
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Ithaca Hours to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Economy & Standards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Ithaca Hours · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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