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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Manuel Castells -- Chapter 1 Economy Is Culture: Sarah Banet-Weiser and Manuel Castells -- What is value? -- The culture of financial capitalists and financial institutions -- The passion to create and the value of creativity -- Feminist economics -- Conclusion: Economic practices beyond economics -- References -- Chapter 2 Economics Without Growth: Giorgos Kallis -- Introduction -- Part 1: Six core principles -- Part 2: An alternative account of the crisis -- Part 3: The alternative economy as an embodiment of the new economics -- Part 4: New economic policies -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3 Analysis of Worldwide Community Economies for Sustainable Local Development: Sviatlana Hlebik -- Introduction -- Part 1: Conceptual framework -- Part 2.1: An overview of typologies and classifications -- Part 2.2: How it works (some examples) -- Part 2.3: Statistical data overview -- Part 3: Relationship between the community currency systems and the country's level of social and economic development, different aspects of the financial sector and money -- Main empirical findings -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2: Methodology -- Appendix 3: Statistical analysis -- References -- Chapter 4 Blockchain Dreams: Imagining Techno-Economic Alternatives After Bitcoin: Lana Swartz -- Introduction -- The bitcoin blockchain -- The blockchain after bitcoin -- Radical blockchain dreams -- The incorporative blockchain dream? -- A slow blockchain? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Consumer Financial Services in the US: Why Banks May Not Be the Answer: Lisa J. Servon -- Methodology -- The three trends underlying the dysfunctional financial services landscape -- Findings -- Conclusion -- References.