Mon, Oct 16
|Zoom meeting
VRC Juku VIP Speaker: Michael Shuman
Unlocking Local Finance for Community Economic Development
Time & Location
Oct 16, 2023, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Zoom meeting
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About The Event
A new era of localization is dawning that can meet the urgent requirements of decarbonization and community resilience. But seizing this opportunity will require new forms of local finance. MichaelShuman, a business professor at Bard College and author of five books on localization, will review cutting-edge developments in the field of local investment and their relevant for Japn and the world.
ABOUT MICHAEL SHUMAN:
Michael H. Shuman is an economist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur, and a leading visionary on community economics. He is an Adjunct Professor at Bard Business School in New York City. He is also a Senior Researcher for Council Fire, where he performs economic-development analyses for states, local governments, and businesses around North America. He is credited with being one of the architects of the 2012 JOBS Act and dozens of state laws overhauling securities regulation of crowdfunding. He has authored, coauthored, or edited ten books. His two most recent books are Put Your Money Where Your Life Is: How to Invest Locally Using Solo 401ks and Self-Directed IRAs and The Local Economy Solution: How Innovative, Self-Financing Pollinator Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity. One of his previous books, The Small Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (Berrett-Koehler, 2006), received as bronze prize from the Independent Publishers Association for best business book of 2006. A prolific speaker, Shuman has given an average of more than one invited talk per week, mostly to local governments and universities, for the past 30 years in nearly every U.S. state and more than a dozen countries.
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VRC Juku Speaker Event
Michael Shuman, economist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur, and a leading visionary on community economics.
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