Building Resilient Local Economies through Local Investment

Michael Shuman, author of the book Local Dollars, Local Sense, is director of research for Cutting Edge Capital, director of research and economic development at the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute.

“Traditional  public-sector improvement in education, health, and other quality-of-life factors can only be sustained in communities generating their own wealth, and this is only possible in communities rich in entrepreneurs.”