Community Capitalism: Lessons from Kalamazoo and Beyond

Licking County, Ohio bought 1400 copies of this book: Community Capitalism: Lessons from Kalamazoo and Beyond

It started with 12 copies. Then there were a thousand.

By the time it was done, Licking County had spent $12,500 ordering more than 1,400 volumes of the book — a self-help manual of sorts for the economically challenged — and sent it home with teachers, preachers, farmers and politicians.

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