| Preface: Starting Anew |
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| Introduction: Cereal Milk for the Gods |
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Part One The Economics of Local |
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Chapter 1 Motherhood, Apple Pie, and Political Theatre |
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How We Are Failing Our Small Businesses |
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Chapter 2 Blue Skies, Pipe Dreams, and the Lure of Easy Money |
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Our Financial Legacy and its Unintended Consequences |
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Chapter 3 Buy Local, Eat Local ... Invest Local |
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Reconnecting Investors and Businesses |
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Chapter 4 The Local Imperative |
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Leveling the Playing Field |
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Part Two Experiments in Citizen Finance |
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Chapter 5 The Last Real Banker? |
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Relationship Banking Is Not Dead - Yet |
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Chapter 6 The Biggest-Impact Financial Sector You've Never Heard Of |
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Community Development Loan Funds Reach Out to Individual Investors |
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Chapter 7 A Model to LIONize |
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How One Pacific Northwest Town Engineered a Quiet Revival |
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Chapter 8 Community Capital |
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It Takes a Village, or a Police Force, or Perhaps Some Farmers |
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Chapter 9 Pennies from Many |
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When Social Networking Met Finance |
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Chapter 11 From Brown Rice to Biofuels |
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Co-ops on the Cutting Edge |
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Chapter 12 The Do-It-Yourself Public Offering |
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The Allure of Public Venture Capital |
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Chapter 13 Back to the Future |
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The Rebirth of the Local Stock Exchange |
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| Conclusion |
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| Notes |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Index |
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