Review: Building Wealth
Building Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems
Building Wealth:
The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems
Edited by the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland
210 pages (Aspen, Colo.: The Aspen Institute, 2005)
The Democracy Collaborative’s useful primer examines the reach and impact of individual, community, and government wealth-building initiatives to promote social and economic justice. In only 121 pages (plus an expansive and excellent bibliography), senior research associate Steve Dubb, the...
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