TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shuman, Michael.
TI  - The local economy solution: how innovative, self-financing "pollinator" enterprises can grow jobs and prosperity
SN  - 9781603585750
U1  - 338.64SHU 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - White River Junction
PB  - Chelsea Green Publishing
KW  - Economic development
N2  - Reinventing economic development as if small business mattered. In cities and towns across the nation, economic development is at a crossroads. A growing body of evidence has proven that its current cornerstone--ncentives to attract and retain large, globally mobile businesses--is a dead end. Even those programs that focus on local business, through buy-local initiatives, for example, depend on ongoing support from government or philanthropy. The entire practice of economic development has become ineffective and unaffordable and is in need of a makeover. The Local Economy Solution suggests an alternative approach in which states and cities nurture a new generation of enterprises that help local businesses launch and grow. These cutting-edge companies, which Shuman calls "pollinator businesses
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