Going local : creating self-reliant communities in a global age / Michael H. Shuman.
Going local : creating self-reliant communities in a global age / Michael H. Shuman.
Going local : creating self-reliant communities in a global age / Michael H. Shuman.
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New York : Free Press, c1998.
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T0361686
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 306 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Place Matters -- 2. Needs-Driven Industries -- 3. Community Corporations -- 4. Financing the Future -- 5. Pro-Community Local Governance -- 6. Bringing Home Power, Not Bacon -- 7. Making History -- Appendix. Around the World Economy in 80 Ways.
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New York : Free Press, c1998.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1998.
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Communities throughout the world are losing control of their economies. Convinced by mainstream economists that globalization is inevitable, local leaders - whether liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican - are trying to attract outside investment by paying massive subsidies, slashing wages, and weakening environmental standards.
Going Local details how dozens of communities are regaining control over their economies by employing three new kinds of strategies: investing not in outsiders, but in locally owned businesses like credit unions, cooperatives, community land trusts, municipally owned utilities, small worker-owned firms, community development corporations, and local...
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Going local : creating self-reliant communities in a global age / Michael H. Shuman.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-294) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from 338.973/128.
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c1998.
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T0361686
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74VMb8RGg4Ld
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0684830124
9780684830124
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338.973
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991000881359702626
