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Creating wealth : growing local economies with local currencies / Gwendolyn Hallsmith & Bernard Lietaer ; preface by Dennis Meadows ; foreword by Hunter Lovins.

Title
Creating wealth : growing local economies with local currencies / Gwendolyn Hallsmith & Bernard Lietaer ; preface by Dennis Meadows ; foreword by Hunter Lovins.
Author
Hallsmith, Gwendolyn.
Publication
Gabriola, B.C. : New Society Publishers, c2011.

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Additional Authors
Lietaer, Bernard A.
Description
xviii, 269 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • City planning > Economic aspects
  • Cooperation
  • Sustainable development
  • Wealth
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: Local economics. What is wealth? --Crash and burn economics -- Community capitalism -- The possibility of sufficiency and abundance -- Part II: Examples of complementary currencies. Building equity -- Growing intelligence -- The creative economy -- Exchanging ecologies -- Minding the community's business -- Putting the care back in healthcare -- Honoring our elders, caring for children -- Eating money -- Part III: Making it happen. Intentional cities -- A tale of three cities -- Conclusion: Toward a monetary democracy -- Appendix: The community currency how-to manual.
ISBN
  • 9780865716674
  • 0865716676
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries