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Better Places National Awards – spreading skills and knowledge

We’re looking for innovative initiatives that are both economically and socially inclusive – exemplars that ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Better Places National Awards 2012

**UPDATE: SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED** The Better Places National Awards will celebrate initiatives that go that extra mile, ...

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The green economy – our big opportunity

A green economy is not a sub-set of the economy at large – our whole ...

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What should local economic development do now?

While policymakers flip-flop it’s up to local areas themselves to take the bull by the ...

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The wisdom of crowds

Crowdfunding is now a legal form of finance for start-ups in the US. Storm Cunningham ...

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How to dismantle the welfare state

If the commitment to the welfare state, as we currently understand it, is destroyed then ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The ragged-trousered optimists

Like the workers in Robert Tressel’s book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, who threw themselves into ...

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Book review: How local resilience creates sustainable societies

Economic crisis seems to be never-ending and, in the meantime, things are changing. Sometimes silently, ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Stripping away the spin about Big Society Capital

Perhaps spending £400m on building the market for social investment is a good idea. But ...

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Book review: Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

Where the book succeeds it does so brilliantly. As a thought experiment, as a way ...