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 Some production lends itself to the household scale (growing veg, keeping bees or chickens), and some to the community scale. For example, it makes much more sense for a community to support a bakery, potter, blacksmith etc, rather than individual households doing those things for themselves. For local consumption, there has to be a range of local, small businesses to consume from. So:
-- [Re-skill](https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/ints/start)
+- [Re-skill](ints:start)
 - [Start a small business](https://www.gov.uk/browse/business/setting-up)
 - [Downshift](/down/downshifting) (to cope with any reduction in income)
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 ## Further resources
+- [Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered](https://www.lowimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/Small-is-Beautiful.pdf) - Schumachers's 1973 book
+- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law) - anti-monopoly law
+- [The Next System](https://thenextsystem.org/learning-from-emilia-romagna) - learning from Emilia Romagna, a region of Italy with an economy based on small businesses and 8000 co-operatives
+- [Front Porch Republic](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/) - promoting human scale and the distribution of power
+- [Practical Action](https://practicalaction.org/) - formerly the Intermediate Technology Development Group, founded by E.F. Schumacher to promote small businesses in developing countries
+- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher) - E. F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful
+- [Schumacher Center for a New Economics](https://centerforneweconomics.org/)
+- [Schumacher Institute](https://schumacherinstitute.org.uk/) - think tank based on Schumacher's ideas
+- [Distributism](https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Distributism) - on the P2P Foundation wiki
+## Related topics
+- [[intc:Intentional communities]]
+- [[ptrn:Pattern language]]
+- [[lish:shopping|Low-impact shopping]]
+- [[mucr:Mutual credit]]
+- [[demo:democracy|The democracy problem]]
+- [[tran:transition|Transition initiatives]]
+- [[self:Self-employment]]
+- [[crun:Credit unions]]
+- [[csas:Community-supported agriculture]]
+- [[limo:money|Low-impact money]]
+- [[coec:Commons economy]]
+- [[comy:Community]]
+- [[down:Downshifting]]
+- [[phil:Philosophy]]
+- [[fair:Fairtrade]]
+- [[lcur:Local currencies]]
+- [[smho:Smallholding]]
+- [[farm:Farmers markets]]