From the Roots Up: Economic Development as If Community Mattered

by David Ross and Peter Usher

First published in 1986, this book presents an alternative vision of the economy, one that is not dominated by conventional indicators and analyses of the narrower market economy. Ross and Usher argue that the separation of economic and social problems encouraged by "bottom-line" thinking in business and government must be replaced by a form of "social accounting," as typified by activity in smaller structures closer to the community. Expanding the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888103654
• ISBN13: 9780888103659
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Lorimer
• Length: 176 Pages