Small-Mart Revolution How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition

Name: Small-Mart Revolution How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition
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ISBN: 9781576754665

ISBN-10: 1576754669

ISBN-13: 9781576754665

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Annotated)

Authors: Michael H. Shuman, Bill McKibben

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Defenders of globalization, free markets, and free trade insist there's no alternative to mega-stores like Wal-Mart -- Michael Shuman begs to differ. In "The Small-Mart Revolution, Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model, one in which communities reap the benefits of "going local" in four key spending categories: goods, services, energy, and finance. He argues that despite the endless media coverage of multinational conglomerates, local businesses give more to charity, adapt more easily to rising labor and environmental standards, and produce more wealth for a community. They also spend more locally, thereby increasing community income and creating wealth and jobs.…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.19" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction: From Wal-Mart to Small-Mart



The Gathering Gale



Wreckonomics



The LOIS Alternative



Amazing Shrinking Machines



The Small-Mart Patriots



Consumers



Investors



Entrepreneurs



Policymakers



Community Builders



Globalizers



The Fall and Rise of Small-Scale Competitiveness



The Scale of Existing Business by Payroll


Acknowledgments


About the Author


Notes


Index