INQUIRIES INTO THE NATURE OF SLOW MONEY: INVESTING AS IF FOOD, FARMS, AND FERTILITY MATTERED
Book ID/图书代码： 03008008B28531
English Summary/英文概要： We must bring money back down to earth. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents the path for bringing money back down to earth—philosophically, strategically and pragmatically, and with an entrepreneurial spirit that is informed by decades of work by the thousands of CEOs, investors, grant-makers, food producers and consumers who are seeding the restorative economy.
The months and years ahead will surely see a flood of books proposing micro- and macro-economic fixes to the financial crises of the day. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money brings a different vision—a meta-economic vision, looking above the top tine and below the bottom line, a new way of seeing what is going on in the soil of the economy.
The soil of the economy? Bringing money back down to earth?
This is the path towards a financial system that serves people and place as much at it serves industry sectors and markets. To discover this path, and to begin to walk down it, is the mission of Slow Money.
This mission emerges from decades of work as a venture capitalist, foundation treasurer, and entrepreneur by Woody Tasch, whose explorations shed new light on a truer, more beautiful, more prudent kind of fiduciary responsibility, a fiduciary responsibility that is not stuck in the industrial concepts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but which reflects the new economic, social and environmental realities of the 21st century.
These explorations take us from the jokes of his father to the insights of his son, from the Board rooms of foundations and start-up companies to the farm fields of Vermont, from gopher holes in New Mexico to the possibilities of an alternative stock exchange, from Carlo Petrini to Muhammad Yunus, from Thoreau to Soros.
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money investigates an essential new strategy for investing in local food systems, and introduces a group of fiduciary activists who are exploring what should come after industrial finance and industrial agriculture. Theirs is a vision for investing that puts soil fertility into return-on-investment calculations.
*Could there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small, and local?
*Could a million American families get their food from CSAs?
*What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within 50 miles of where you live?
Such questions—at the heart of Slow Money—are the first step on our path to a new economy and a new culture.
Inquiries into Slow Money is a call to action for designing capital markets built around—not extraction and consumption but—preservation and restoration.
Is it a movement or is it an investment strategy? Yes.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本書從哲學、策略與實用角度描述資本化，提供數千位在執行振興經濟方案的企業主、投資人，他們實現理想的企業家精神。此書提供全方位的觀點Slow Money，一種發現經濟基本面的新觀點。
由資本家、基金經理人、企業家在21世紀的社會，應該如何改善經濟現狀。作者提供了投資與本地經濟體系的新策略，介紹研討工業經濟和工業化農業將帶來獲利。如何建立一個維持平衡的資本市場，邁向經濟與文化的新潮流。
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“Woody Tasch has one of those fast minds that always seems to ask the right slow questions. He is on to something: a new vision of deploying capital in a way that might offer a true alternative to faster and faster, bigger and bigger, more and more global.”--Eliot Coleman, farmer and author of The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest 版权已发售到：韩国，日本，意大利
书评：
“伍迪塔什的思维十分灵活，他总是很能跟对路子：一种发掘资本的新看法，一种能真正提供让经济发展得更快、更大、更国际的替代物。”---艾略特 科尔曼
“关心人类状况与我们居住星球的人的必阅之书。”---马克 芬瑟
“我们常常会有一些想法，我们却觉得其不妙，但事实上，它们确实不可或缺的。缓慢资本就是这么一个想法。资本的力量非常强大，强大到可以改变我们所存在的世界。，目前为止，那些选择导致了许多问题，像残缺的世界食物体系，而人们却对食物的来源毫不知情。这样的现状是十分危险的。我真切希望，一个健全的食物体系能帮助我们更多。缓慢资本的重要性不容忽视，而伍迪的书正激励着我们致力于可持续农业。我对缓慢经济的到来已经迫不及待了。”---汤姆 史登斯
“必读之物，能与贝瑞和舒马赫的相媲美。”---格雷戈里 怀特黑德
About the Author/作者介绍： Woody Tasch is Chairman and President of Slow Money, a 501 c 3 formed in 2008 to catalyze the flow of investment capital to small food enterprises and to promote new principles of fiduciary responsibility to support sustainable agriculture and the emergence of a restorative economy. For ten years, through 2008, Tasch was Chairman of Investors’ Circle, a network of angel investors, family offices, and social purpose funds and foundations that has invested $133 million in 200 early stage sustainability-promoting ventures and venture funds, since 1992. During much of the 1990s, Woody was Treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes ...
Woody Tasch於2008年分析資本風險與小型公司之間的流動，扶植責任制的信念來支持農業與經濟的復甦。這10年來，Woody Tasch一直是投資界的領導者，是一位有企業家精神的投資人。1992年起，Woody將1.33億投資捐獻於200所可持續發展的企業。
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