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Small Change, Big Deal: Money as If People Mattered Reprint Edition

2024-07-08 分类：政治与社会科学

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Small Change, Big Deal: Money as If People Mattered Reprint Edition

Author(s): Jennifer Kavanagh (Author)

  • Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
  • Publication Date: 29 Jun. 2012
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 181 pages
  • ISBN-10: 9781780993133
  • ISBN-13: 1780993137

Book Description

As we consider the plight of our consumer-driven economy, it is easy to forget that money is about relationship: between individuals and between communities. In our current financial mess, it is worth reminding ourselves of community-based alternatives, and to look closely at microcredit, a model of peer lending to enable people to move out of poverty. From Bangladesh, from South Africa, from Ghana, and from the East End of London, we are given a worm’s eye view of small scale work, of personal transformation, and the building of community. Small and local is still beautiful, and has much to teach us.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This is a superb and timely book. Thoroughly researched, Jennifer Kavanagh enlivens the insights from data with real-world examples of persons who are bridging the current abyss between “money and relationship,” to create new forms of personal and social wealth. In a period of lingering economic crisis, when many people in developed countries are slipping out of the middle class and into poverty, Kavanaghs book provides remedies that are practical, tested, and most of all, empowering. Money works as an asset, not an end: more than a mere exchange of value, money at its core represents the mutual commitment to values that is the basis for trust. By recovering the moral core of economics, Kavanagh has unleashed that most subversive of revolutions in which society achieves the very transformation it originally intended. –(John Dalla Costa, Founding Director, Centre for Ethical Orientation Author of The Ethical Imperative: Why Moral Leadership is Good Business)

Review

This book is the true starting point for considering what should be the deepest, most fundamental principles underlying appropriate financial services for the poor, just as jurisprudence, which deals with justice, ethics, morality and right vs. wrong, must similarly be the starting pointfor the legal profession. Through the many client stories Jennifer relates as well as the narrative of her own journey of discovery, this book is apersonal “diary” and a lyrical, uplifting, enriching and thought-provoking kaleidoscope of issues that practitioners in the field of micro-finance, community development and economic empowerment wrestle with every day. –(Rosalind Copisarow, Managing Director, Oikocredit)

Review

With a rich background as a microcredit practitioner, Jennifer Kavanagh weaves personal experience, analysis and a wider social perspective that make the book of strong general interest. Indeed, the book is not only a great resource for activists in the microfinance sector, researchers and students but also food for thought for those concerned about how we manage our financial affairs. I hope that the book will help educate people about microcredit and evaluate its worth in reaching its full potential. –(Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate, and founder of the Grameen bank)

About the Author

In 1999 a Churchill Fellowship enabled Jennifer to study microcredit in Bangladesh. Since then, she has set up programmes in various parts of Africa and in the UK. She is a Quaker, a former literary agent, and a writer and speaker on the Spirit-led life. This is her fifth book. www.jenniferkavanagh.co.uk

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