Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman’s book Local Dollars, Local Sense was praised in this article at VTDigger.

From the article:

Spearheading the growing national movement toward local business generation is the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE, which held its annual meeting in Burlington in 2006), the American Independent Business Alliance, and the Schumacher Center for a New Economy (where Shuman is heading its Localpedia project).

How can these innovative local businesses be financed? Shuman addressed that question in his 2012 book “Local Dollars, Local Sense” (also published by Chelsea Green). The techniques often require state government to relax long-outdated regulations that “protect” people from investing in local enterprises.