The longevity of alternative economic practices: Lessons from alternative currency networks

Interrogating Alterity: Alternative Economic and Political Spaces

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 31-46

  North, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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