Creating wealth
Subtitle: growing local economies with local currencies
By: Gwendolyn Hallsmith & Bernard Lietaer ; preface by Dennis Meadows ; foreword by Hunter Lovins
Contributors: Lietaer, Bernard A.; Lovins, L. Hunter, 1950-; Meadows, Dennis L.
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gabriola, B.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780865716674; 9781550924770
Subjects: City planning; Economic aspects; Wealth; Cooperation; Sustainable development
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.