Alternative Economies and Spaces  New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy 

 - Bielefeld, Germany  transcript Verlag  2013 
 - 1 online resource 
 - Global Studies .
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<br/><br/> The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars  (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in  these contributions - including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprises - deliver valuable insights into how such alternatives are performed at various scales and spaces in relation to and beyond the economic mainstream. In sum, the collection provides vital grounds for both a transition of the economic system towards a more sustainable one, and a reconceptualisation of the economic itself in our scholarly thinking and everyday lives. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783839424988 transcript.9783839424988 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.14361/transcript.9783839424988  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human geography
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Alternative Economic Spaces Alternative Economies Capitalism Chiemgauer Credit union Cultural Geography Currency Economics Economy Ethics Fair trade Geography Globalization Human Geography Oxfam Social Geography Space Sustainability Transition Worldshop