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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.
- Summary
- Demonstrates how a healthy society can be attained through developing new systems of exchange. Using creative initiatives such as time banks, systems of barter and exchange, and local currencies, cities and towns can empower themselves and build sustainable local economies. Explores the different types of capital that communities have to draw on, including natural, built, social, human, institutional, cultural, technological, and financial. From publisher description.
- Subject
- 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
- OCLC
- 669755013
- SCSB-12672617
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library