Review:
" 'Short Circuit' resonates. A vital read for uncertain times.' -- Sara Parkin, Green Party founder and director of Forum for the Future
"A wonderfully irreverent challenge to our obsessions with the market place." -- - Anthony Sampson, author of 'The New Anatomy of Britain'
"Marvellous. Brilliantly written. Challenges the globalisation of the food economy and shows how re-localisation is possible." -- - Prof. Tim Lang
"Short Circuit combines brilliant analysis with straight reporting of the experience of people in areas almost invariably dismissed as 'alternative'. This is a book crammed with stories. There are stories of how people, working within their own communities, have created alternative financial systems, 'parallel financial micro-climates', within which local resources are appropriated, applied and exchanged... It provides a map of reality which is at least as real as the one depicted in the news columns and business pages, but is never acknowledged other than in a tokenistic and condescending way." -- - John Walters, The Irish Times
"Very valuable... the most readable and accurate account of the new money systems I've come across." -- - Michael Linton, developer of Local Exchange Trading Systems LETS
About the Author:
Richard Douthwaite is an economist and writer with a special interest in climate and energy issues and in local economic development. His best-known book, The Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet explores the effects that the pursuit of growth has had on the environment and society. He is a co-founder of Feasta, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, the Dublin-based international network of people who believe that the world's sustainability problems are due to the use of dysfunctional systems and are trying to develop better ones. His current projects include the design and introduction of novel financing arrangements for community energy projects and the management of the Carbon Cycles and Sinks Network which explores ways in which land-based greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced.
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