Re-Constructing the Global Network Economy
Building Pathways to Resilience in Local Economies

This book looks at how to build more resilience into socio-economic networks within local communities. Understanding the relationships between attachment to place, complex systems and patterns of knowledge creation is not straightforward, but these relationships are emerging as the challenges that we face in bridging the gap between the social worlds that we inhabit and an emerging digital world.

The book is a bottom up, case study driven, follow up to our previous book - People, Place & Global Order.  With 2 case studies from Romania and 2 from the US (2 cities, one micro brewery and one NGO), it offers practical global insights into the role of entrepreneurs, universities, public institutions and citizens in developing relational capital, that when attached to a specific place becomes rooted as locational capital.  As such, the book examines numerous models of local and regional development, identifying, in the case studies, what seems to work and what doesn't, through the lense of networked digital disruption.  In the end, the book is designed to provide an informed guide for anyone interested in enabling the place that they call home to thrive in a networked world.

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