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Locavesting : the Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It.

How individuals and communities can profit from local investingIn the wake of the financial crisis, investors are faced with a stark choice: entrust their hard-earned dollars to the Wall Street casino, or settle for anemic interest rates on savings, bonds, and CDs. Meanwhile, small businesses are be...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
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  • Introduction: Cereal milk for the Gods
  • I: The economics of local
  • Motherhood, apple pie, and political theatre : how we are failing our small businesses
  • Blue skies, pipe dreams, and the lure of easy money : our financial legacy and its unintended consequences
  • Buy local, eat local ... invest local : reconnecting investors and businesses
  • The local imperative : leveling the playing field
  • Experiments in citizen finance
  • The last real baker? : relationship banking is not dead
  • yet
  • The biggest-impact financial sector you've never heard of : community development loan funds reach out to individual investors
  • A model to LIONize : how one pacific northwest town engineered a quiet revival
  • Community capital : it takes a village, or a police force, or perhaps some farmers
  • Pennies from many : when social networking met finance
  • Slow money : finance for foodsheds
  • From brown rive to biofuels : co-ops on the cutting edge
  • The do-it-yourself public offering : the allure of public venture capital
  • Back to the future : the rebirth of the local stock exchange.