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Building assets, building credit creating wealth in low-income communities /

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Citizen wealth winning the campaign to save working families / by Rathke, Wade

Table of Contents: “…Building a winning campaign for economic security -- Home ownership through community reinvestment -- Stopping foreclosures and predatory lending -- Making work pay living wages -- Creating wealth through worker organizations -- Making earned income tax credits work for workers -- Guarding tax refunds and combatting high prices -- The debt trap -- The "maximum eligible participation" solution -- Working with corparations to create an asset climate -- Business models that foster citizen wealth -- Bringing citizens into the wealth-building process -- The future of citizen wealth.…”
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Integral community political economy to social commons / by Lessem, Ronnie

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : phoenix rising from the ashes -- Uri Munhu here -- Welcome to the world -- Integral community : political economy to social commons -- Conclusion : structure building and structure changing -- Original grounding : being out of communally based self-sufficiency -- Uri Munhu here -- African trading -- Emerging foundation : becoming a culture based developmental economy -- Renewing communism -- Moral markets -- Social commons -- Mutual society -- Navigate emancipation : knowing knowledge based social innovation -- Technology-innovation-people-systems -- Integral innovation -- The wealth of networks -- Economic democracy -- Epilogue: towards releasing the genius of Zimbabwe.…”
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The rise of global civil society building communities and nations from the bottom up / by Eberly, Don E.

Table of Contents: “…-- From aid bureaucracy to civil society -- Toward participation and partnerships -- Wealth, poverty, and the rise of corporate citizenship -- Micro-enterprise : tapping native capability at the bottom of the pyramid -- America's most generous gift : the great tsunami of 2005 -- Conflict or collaboration : religion and civil society -- Understanding and confronting anti-americanism -- Civil society and nation building : prospects for democratization -- Conflict and reconciliation in the context of nation building -- Habits of the heart : building civic community -- Looking ahead : a roadmap for building communities and nations through indigenous civil society, markets, and rule of law -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.…”
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The work of the university by Levin, Richard C.

Table of Contents: “…-- The spirit of adventure -- Yale time -- Beginnings -- Welcome to Yale -- The university's role in society -- Universities and our common wealth -- The American university as an engine of economic growth -- Universities as urban citizens -- The global university -- The graduate's role in society -- Education for self and for others -- On controversy -- Taking the next step -- The task of citizenship -- Beyond community service: the nation and the wider world -- Reflections on revolution -- China on my mind -- Thinking about September 11 -- Building a better Yale -- Yale's fourth century -- Yale at 300 -- Honoring schools, teachers, and traditions -- An embryonic democracy -- A salute to Princeton -- Remembering Oxford -- Chasing after society -- James Tobin, scholar-hero -- A devoted mentor -- Shimon Peres -- Blessed is the match -- Reflections on the American economy -- Can America compete in world markets?…”
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