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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: 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) - [Start a small business](https://www.gov.uk/browse/business/setting-up)
 - [Downshift](/down/downshifting) (to cope with any reduction in income) - [Downshift](/down/downshifting) (to cope with any reduction in income)
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 ## Further resources ## Further resources
  
-- [Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered](https://www.daastol.com/books/Schumacher%20(1973)%20Small%20is%20Beautiful.pdf) Schumachers's 1973 book+- [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 - [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 - [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
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 - [Distributism](https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Distributism) - on the P2P Foundation wiki - [Distributism](https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Distributism) - on the P2P Foundation wiki
  
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 +## Related topics
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 +- [[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]]
  
  
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