Good Local Economics

We need a new name for local economics

The direction of travel is all too clear. Go to East St Louis or Camden, New Jersey. Go to Detroit, and the swathes of abandoned housing, vacant land stretching as far as the eye can see, rubbish strewn and miserable.

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Experiments in a new local economics

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An economy which is ‘less about me and more about us’

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What’s the difference between a parish council and a trade association?

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Place-based approaches are the only hope for our future

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‘Deep hanging out’ with young people improves services

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Q & A with Bruce Katz: Building a new economy from the bottom up

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Where’s the local transport money going?

Communities Good Local Economics Regeneration

We need to talk about ‘good relations’

Across the country groups, organisations and committed volunteers are working quietly under the radar to strengthen relationships across difference. Differences that are often along the lines of ethnicity, race and faith, although age, gender, class, wealth and geography can also feature. In Talk for a Change’s recent report, Untold Stories of Good Relations, we uncovered some of this work.