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Professor Peter North

Publications

Selected publications

  1. “It’s not very Liverpool, is it”: T/transition initiatives in a post-industrial city. (Chapter - 2025)
  2. The Solidarity Economy (Book Review - 2025)
  3. Generative Anger: From Social Enterprise to Antagonistic Economies (Journal article - 2020)
  4. Scaling up or deepening? Developing the radical potential of the SSE sector in a time of crisis (Website content - 2019)
  5. Alternative Currencies (Chapter - 2019)
  6. The neoliberalisation of climate? Progressing climate policy under austerity urbanism (Journal article - 2017)
  7. Towards just and sustainable economies: The social and solidarity economy North and South (Book - 2017)
  8. The business of the Anthropocene? Substantivist and diverse economies perspectives on SME engagement in local low carbon transitions (Journal article - 2016)
  9. Ten Square Miles Surrounded By Reality? Materialising Alternative Economies Using Local Currencies (Journal article - 2014)
  10. War Stories': morality, curiosity, enthusiasm and commitment as facilitators of SME owners' engagement in low carbon transitions (Journal article - 2014)
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2025

2024

Convivial writing experiences – Insights from the Polička Collective

Sattler, M., & Pungas, L. (2024). Convivial writing experiences – Insights from the Polička Collective. [Blog]. Retrieved from https://blog.leibniz-ifl.de/

Digital or visual media

2023

Community economies

Healy, S., Inés Heras, A., & North, P. (2023). Community economies. In Encyclopedia of the Social and Solidarity Economy (pp. 12-18). Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781803920924.00014

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10.4337/9781803920924.00014
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Community Economics and the Social and Solidarity Economy

North, P., Healy, S., & Heras, A. I. (2023). Community Economics and the Social and Solidarity Economy. In I. Yi (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Social and Solidarity Economy A Collective Work of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on SSE (UNTFSSE) (pp. 12-18). Cheltenham, Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Chapter

2021

Bouncing forward, better? Is another Liverpool possible? In Futures of Work 17

North, P. (2021). Bouncing forward, better? Is another Liverpool possible? In Futures of Work 17. Retrieved from https://futuresofwork.co.uk/

Website content

Coal not Dole: The Great Strike against Thatcher

North, P. (2021). Coal not Dole: The Great Strike against Thatcher. In D. Azzellini (Ed.), More than Industrial Action: Workers Struggle Against Authoritarianism, Fascism and Dictatorship (pp. 192-198). Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg Siftung. Retrieved from https://www.vsa-verlag.de/

Chapter

2020

Alternative currencies: diverse experiments

North, P. (2020). Alternative currencies: diverse experiments. In The Handbook of Diverse Economies. Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781788119962.00035

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10.4337/9781788119962.00035
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Independent and small businesses: diversity amongst the 99 per cent of businesses

North, P. (2020). Independent and small businesses: diversity amongst the 99 per cent of businesses. In The Handbook of Diverse Economies. Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781788119962.00018

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10.4337/9781788119962.00018
Chapter

2019

Are social media making constructive climate policymaking harder?

Schäfer, M. S., & North, P. (2019). Are social media making constructive climate policymaking harder?. In Contemporary Climate Change Debates (pp. 222-235). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429446252-16

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10.4324/9780429446252-16
Chapter

Alternative Currencies

North, P. J. (2019). Alternative Currencies. In A. Kothari, Salleh, Ariel, A. Escobar, F. Demaria, & A. Acosta (Eds.), Pluriverse A Post-Development Dictionary (pp. 92-94). Delhi: Tulika Books.

Chapter

2018

Alternative Currency Movements as a Challenge to Globalisation?

North, P. (n.d.). Alternative Currency Movements as a Challenge to Globalisation?. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351163088

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10.4324/9781351163088
Book

2017

Conclusion: lessons learned and tensions exposed

North, P., & Cato, M. S. (2017). Conclusion: lessons learned and tensions exposed. In Unknown Book (pp. 295-304). Bristol University Press. doi:10.46692/9781447327257.016

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10.46692/9781447327257.016
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Introduction: new economies North and South – sharing the transition to a just and sustainable future

North, P., & Cato, M. S. (2017). Introduction: new economies North and South – sharing the transition to a just and sustainable future. In Unknown Book (pp. 1-12). Bristol University Press. doi:10.46692/9781447327257.001

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10.46692/9781447327257.001
Chapter

Towards just and sustainable economies: The social and solidarity economy North and South

North, P., & Cato, M. S. (2017). Towards just and sustainable economies: The social and solidarity economy North and South.

Book

Transitioning towards low carbon solidarity economies?

North, P. (2017). Transitioning towards low carbon solidarity economies?. In Towards just and sustainable economies: The social and solidarity economy North and South (pp. 73-95).

Chapter

Handbook on the Geographies of Money and Finance

Martin, R., & Pollard, J. (Eds.) (2017). Handbook on the Geographies of Money and Finance. In . Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781784719005

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10.4337/9781784719005
Chapter

Environmentalism, Grassroots

North, P. (n.d.). Environmentalism, Grassroots. In Unknown Book (pp. 1-7). Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0364

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10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0364
Chapter

2016

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

North, P. (2016). The longevity of alternative economic practices: Lessons from alternative currency networks. In Interrogating Alterity: Alternative Economic and Political Spaces (pp. 31-46). doi:10.4324/9781315589633-12

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10.4324/9781315589633-12
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2015

2014

Book Review Symposium: JK Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy, <i>Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities</i>

North, P. (2014). Book Review Symposium: JK Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy, <i>Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities</i>. Sociology, 48(5), 1057-1059. doi:10.1177/0038038514544487

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10.1177/0038038514544487
Journal article

Book review: Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming our Communities, Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left

North, P. (2014). Book review: Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming our Communities, Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left. Progress in Human Geography, 38(5), 725-727. doi:10.1177/0309132513506152

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10.1177/0309132513506152
Journal article

Ten Square Miles Surrounded By Reality? Materialising Alternative Economies Using Local Currencies

North, P. (2014). Ten Square Miles Surrounded By Reality? Materialising Alternative Economies Using Local Currencies. Antipode, 46(1), 246-265. doi:10.1111/anti.12039

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10.1111/anti.12039
Journal article

2013

Knowledge exchange, ‘impact’ and engagement: exploring low‐carbon urban transitions

North, P. (2013). Knowledge exchange, ‘impact’ and engagement: exploring low‐carbon urban transitions. The Geographical Journal, 179(3), 211-220. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2012.00488.x

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10.1111/j.1475-4959.2012.00488.x
Journal article

Grassroots Localisation? The Scalar Potential of and Limits of the ‘Transition’ Approach to Climate Change and Resource Constraint

North, P., & Longhurst, N. (2013). Grassroots Localisation? The Scalar Potential of and Limits of the ‘Transition’ Approach to Climate Change and Resource Constraint. Urban Studies, 50(7), 1423-1438. doi:10.1177/0042098013480966

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10.1177/0042098013480966
Journal article

Az argentínai barterhálózalokés a pénzügyi összeomlás túlélése (Argentine barter networks surviving financial meltdown)

North, P. (2013). Az argentínai barterhálózalokés a pénzügyi összeomlás túlélése (Argentine barter networks surviving financial meltdown). Eszmélet: a journal of theory and culture, 100, 130-147.

Journal article

Militant Liverpool: a city on the edge

Frost, D., & North, P. (2013). Militant Liverpool: a city on the edge. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press.

Book

The Alternative Economy at the Regional Scale? Lessons from the Chiemgau

North, P. J., & Weber, K. (2013). The Alternative Economy at the Regional Scale? Lessons from the Chiemgau. In H. -M. Zademach, & S. Hillebrand (Eds.), Alternative Economies and Spaces: New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy (pp. n/p). Bielefeld: Transcprit Verlag.

Chapter

2012

A suitable climate for political action? A sympathetic review of the politics of transition: Peter North and Molly Scott Cato

A suitable climate for political action? A sympathetic review of the politics of transition: Peter North and Molly Scott Cato (2012). In Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism (pp. 106-120). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203146118-13

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10.4324/9780203146118-13
Chapter

Alternative forms of enterprise

North, P. (2012). Alternative forms of enterprise. In Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The Role of Small Business in Addressing Social and Economic Inequalities (pp. 277-296).

Chapter

A suitable climate for political action'? A sympathetic review of the politics of transition

North, P. J., & Scott-Cato, M. (2012). A suitable climate for political action'? A sympathetic review of the politics of transition. In M. Pelling, D. Manuel-Navarrete, & M. Redclift (Eds.), Climate change and the crisis of capitalism: a chance to reclaim self, society and nature (pp. forthcoming). London: Routledge.

Chapter

Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism

Pelling, M., Manuel-Navarrete, D., & Redclift, M. (Eds.) (n.d.). Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism. In . Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203146118

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10.4324/9780203146118
Chapter

2011

Geographies and utopias of Cameron's Big Society

North, P. (2011). Geographies and utopias of Cameron's Big Society. Social &amp; Cultural Geography, 12(8), 817-827. doi:10.1080/14649365.2011.618889

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10.1080/14649365.2011.618889
Journal article

The Politics of Climate Activism in the UK: A Social Movement Analysis

North, P. (2011). The Politics of Climate Activism in the UK: A Social Movement Analysis. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 43(7), 1581-1598. doi:10.1068/a43534

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10.1068/a43534
Journal article

Developing the Low Carbon Economy on Liverpool: future proofing the city for future climate and fuel price uncertainty

North, P., & Barker, T. (2011). Developing the Low Carbon Economy on Liverpool: future proofing the city for future climate and fuel price uncertainty. Liverpool: Low Carbon Liverpool.

Report

Should Crisis-Hit Countries Leave the Eurozone?

North, P. (2011). Should Crisis-Hit Countries Leave the Eurozone?. Economic Sociology - the European Newsletter, 12(2), 21-26. Retrieved from http://econsoc.mpifg.de/archive/econ_soc_12-2.pdf

Journal article

2010

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

North, P. (2010). The longevity of alternative economic practices: Lessons from alternative currency networks. In Interrogating Alterity: Alternative Economic and Political Spaces (pp. 31-46).

Chapter

Unsustainable Urbanism? Cities, Climate Change and Resource Depletion: A Liverpool Case Study

North, P. (2010). Unsustainable Urbanism? Cities, Climate Change and Resource Depletion: A Liverpool Case Study. Geography Compass, 4(9), 1377-1391. doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00371.x

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10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00371.x
Journal article

Eco-localisation as a progressive response to peak oil and climate change – A sympathetic critique

North, P. (2010). Eco-localisation as a progressive response to peak oil and climate change – A sympathetic critique. Geoforum, 41(4), 585-594. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.04.013

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10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.04.013
Journal article

Alternative currencies as utopian practice

North, P. J. (2010). Alternative currencies as utopian practice. In L. Leonard, & J. Barry (Eds.), Global Ecological Politics (Vol. 5, pp. 73-88). London: Emerald.

Chapter

Local Money

North, P. J. (2010). Local Money. Dartington: Green Books.

Book

2009

Ecolocalisation as an urban strategy in the context of resource constraint and climate change - a (dangerous) new protectionism?

North, P. (2009). Ecolocalisation as an urban strategy in the context of resource constraint and climate change - a (dangerous) new protectionism?. People, Policy and Place Online, 3(1), 28-38.

Journal article

Voices from the trueque: Barter networks and resistance to neoliberalism in Argentina

North, P. (2009). Voices from the trueque: Barter networks and resistance to neoliberalism in Argentina. In Social justice and neoliberalism: Global perspectives (pp. 16-38).

Chapter

Építsünk civil társadalmat? Zöld pénz a rendszerváltozás utáni "átmenet" Magyarországán" ('Constructing Civil ,Society?: green money in Transition Hungary')

North, P. J. (2009). Építsünk civil társadalmat? Zöld pénz a rendszerváltozás utáni "átmenet" Magyarországán" ('Constructing Civil ,Society?: green money in Transition Hungary'). Eszmélet: a quarterly journal of social critique and culture', (81), 114-135.

Journal article

2008

Book review: Gibson-Graham, J.K. 2006: A postcapitalist politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 360 pp. $70 cloth, $25 paper. ISBN: 978 0 8166 4803 0 cloth, 978 0 8166 4804 7 paper

North, P. (2008). Book review: Gibson-Graham, J.K. 2006: A postcapitalist politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 360 pp. $70 cloth, $25 paper. ISBN: 978 0 8166 4803 0 cloth, 978 0 8166 4804 7 paper. Progress in Human Geography, 32(3), 477-481. doi:10.1177/03091325080320031004

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10.1177/03091325080320031004
Journal article

Neoliberalizing Argentina?

North, P. (2007). Neoliberalizing Argentina?. In Unknown Book (pp. 137-162). Wiley. doi:10.1002/9780470712801.ch6

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10.1002/9780470712801.ch6
Chapter

Voices from the Trueque: Argentina's Barter Networks Resisting Neoliberalisation

North, P. J. (2008). Voices from the Trueque: Argentina's Barter Networks Resisting Neoliberalisation. In Social Justice and Neoliberalism: Global Perspectives (pp. 16-38). London: Zed.

Chapter

2007

Alternative currencies as utopian practice

North, P. J. (2007). Alternative currencies as utopian practice. Ecopolitics Online, 1(1), 50-64.

Journal article

Money and Liberation: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements

North, P. J. (2007). Money and Liberation: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved from http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/N/north_money.html

Book

2006

Constructing civil society? Green money in transition Hungary

North, P. (2006). Constructing civil society? Green money in transition Hungary. Review of International Political Economy, 13(1), 28-52. doi:10.1080/09692290500396628

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10.1080/09692290500396628
Journal article

2005

Scaling alternative economic practices? Some lessons from alternative currencies

North, P. (2005). Scaling alternative economic practices? Some lessons from alternative currencies. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 30(2), 221-233. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2005.00162.x

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10.1111/j.1475-5661.2005.00162.x
Journal article

2004

Unequal City: London in the Global Arena

North, P. (2004). Unequal City: London in the Global Arena. Cities, 21(5), 465-466. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2004.05.002

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10.1016/j.cities.2004.05.002
Journal article

Alternative Spaces of the “Argentinazo”

North, P., & Huber, U. (2004). Alternative Spaces of the “Argentinazo”. Antipode, 36(5), 963-984. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00463.x

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10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00463.x
Journal article

Cultural Policy and Urban Regeneration: a Special Edition of Local Economy

Wilks-Heeg, S., & North, P. (2004). Cultural Policy and Urban Regeneration: a Special Edition of Local Economy. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 19(4), 305-311. doi:10.1080/0269094042000286819

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10.1080/0269094042000286819
Journal article

The Emancipatory Community? Place, Politics and Collective Action in Cities

DeFilippis, J. (2004). The Emancipatory Community? Place, Politics and Collective Action in Cities. In The Emancipatory City?: Paradoxes and Possibilities (pp. 72-88). SAGE Publications Ltd. doi:10.4135/9781446221365.n5

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10.4135/9781446221365.n5
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2003

Time Banks — Learning the Lessons from LETS?

North, P. (2003). Time Banks — Learning the Lessons from LETS?. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 18(3), 267-270. doi:10.1080/0269094032000111048

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10.1080/0269094032000111048
Journal article

Communities at the heart? Community action and urban policy in the UK

North, P. J. (2003). Communities at the heart? Community action and urban policy in the UK. In R. Imrie, & M. Raco (Eds.), Urban renaissance? New Labour, community and urban policy (pp. 121-138). Bristol: The Policy Press.

Chapter

2002

Capacity Building and Community Control of Local Economic Assets

North, P., Wilks-Heeg, S., DeFilippis, J., Wilks-Heeg, S., Fuller, D., Jonas, A. E. G., & Oatley, N. (2002). Capacity Building and Community Control of Local Economic Assets. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 17(2), 147-169. doi:10.1080/02690940110101835

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10.1080/02690940110101835
Journal article

LETS in a cold climate: Green Dollars, self-help and neoliberal welfare in New Zealand

North, P. (2002). LETS in a cold climate: Green Dollars, self-help and neoliberal welfare in New Zealand. Policy &amp; Politics, 30(4), 483-499. doi:10.1332/030557302760590413

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10.1332/030557302760590413
Journal article

2001

'It's a Problem, Is It?' Planning and Protest

North, P. (2001). 'It's a Problem, Is It?' Planning and Protest. Planning Theory &amp; Practice, 2(3), 356-361. doi:10.1080/14649350120096901

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10.1080/14649350120096901
Journal article

Community empowerment: rethinking resistance in an era of partnership

North, P. J., & Bruegel, I. (2001). Community empowerment: rethinking resistance in an era of partnership. In J. Pearson, & J. Smith (Eds.), Rebuilding Community: Policy and Practice in Urban Regeneration (pp. 174-188). London: Palgrave.

Chapter

Talking Business: An Actor‐Centred Analysis of Business Agendas for Local Economic Development

North, P., Valler, D., & Wood, A. (2001). Talking Business: An Actor‐Centred Analysis of Business Agendas for Local Economic Development. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 25(4), 830-846. doi:10.1111/1468-2427.00346

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10.1111/1468-2427.00346
Journal article

2000

Is There Space for Organisation from Below within the UK Government's Action Zones? A Test of 'Collaborative Planning'

North, P. (2000). Is There Space for Organisation from Below within the UK Government's Action Zones? A Test of 'Collaborative Planning'. Urban Studies, 37(8), 1261-1278. doi:10.1080/00420980020080131

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10.1080/00420980020080131
Journal article

Local Governance and Local Business Interests: A Critical Review", in , .

Valler, D., Wood, A., & North, P. J. (2000). Local Governance and Local Business Interests: A Critical Review", in , .. Progress in Human Geography, 24(3), 409-428.

Journal article

Local governance and local business interests: a critical review

Valler, D., Wood, A., & North, P. (2000). Local governance and local business interests: a critical review. Progress in Human Geography, 24(3), 409-428. doi:10.1191/030913200701540492

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10.1191/030913200701540492
Journal article

1999

Explorations in Heterotopia: LETS and the micropolitics of money and livelihood

North, P. J. (1999). Explorations in Heterotopia: LETS and the micropolitics of money and livelihood. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 17(1), 69-86.

Journal article

Explorations in Heterotopia: Local Exchange Trading Schemes (LETS) and the Micropolitics of Money and Livelihood

North, P. (1999). Explorations in Heterotopia: Local Exchange Trading Schemes (LETS) and the Micropolitics of Money and Livelihood. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 17(1), 69-86. doi:10.1068/d170069

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10.1068/d170069
Journal article

The Third Way

North, P. (1999). The Third Way. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 14(3), 269-272. doi:10.1080/02690949908726498

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10.1080/02690949908726498
Journal article

1998

Exploring the Politics of Social Movements through ‘Sociological Intervention’: A Case Study of Local Exchange Trading Schemes

North, P. (1998). Exploring the Politics of Social Movements through ‘Sociological Intervention’: A Case Study of Local Exchange Trading Schemes. The Sociological Review, 46(3), 564-582. doi:10.1111/1467-954x.00131

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10.1111/1467-954x.00131
Journal article

LETS, “Hours” and the Swiss “Business Ring”"

North, P. (1998). LETS, “Hours” and the Swiss “Business Ring”". Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 13(2), 114-132. doi:10.1080/02690949808726433

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10.1080/02690949808726433
Journal article

Local business representation and the private sector role in local economic policy in Britain

Wood, A., Valler, D., & North, P. (1998). Local business representation and the private sector role in local economic policy in Britain. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 13(1), 10-27. doi:10.1080/02690949808726419

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10.1080/02690949808726419
Journal article

‘Save our Solsbury!’: The anatomy of an anti‐roads protest

North, P. (1998). ‘Save our Solsbury!’: The anatomy of an anti‐roads protest. Environmental Politics, 7(3), 1-25. doi:10.1080/09644019808414406

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10.1080/09644019808414406
Journal article

1996

LETS

North, P. (1996). LETS. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 11(3), 268-277. doi:10.1080/02690949608726339

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10.1080/02690949608726339
Journal article

LETS on Low Income

Barnes, H., North, P. J., & Walker, P. (1996). LETS on Low Income. London: The New Economics Foundation.

Book

LETS: a tool for empowerment in the inner city?

North, P. J. (1996). LETS: a tool for empowerment in the inner city?. Local Economy, 11(3), 284 293.

Journal article