Localization: A Global Manifesto

ISBN-13: 9781853836121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 304 str.

Colin Hines

Opis

Governments hold up international competitiveness a the be-all and end-all of policy, presenting globalization as inevitable. The author shows that it isn't and that local economies, local autonomy and local democracy can all be protected - globally - if the aid and trade rules are changed. The text provides the arguments and examples for all those threatened by the onward march of a monolithic, undifferentiated, global consumer culture, and for those wanting to preserve local values and services - whether local food, local housing, education, transport or environment.

Spis treści

PART I THE PROBLEM - GLOBALIZATION * Globalization - What it is and the Damage it Does * History and WTO Enforcing of Comparative Advantage * Theory and Attempted Enforcement of Capital Advantage * PART II THE SOLUTION - LOCALIZATION * From Globalization to Localization - A Potential Rallying Call * Localization - Increasing Community Renewal * 'Protect the Local, Globally' - A Route to Localization * Localizing Production and Dismantling Transnational Companies * Localizing Capital * A Localist Competition Policy * Taxes for Localization * Democratic Localism * Trade and Aid for Localization * PART III HOW LOCALIZATION MIGHT COME ABOUT * Growing Opposition * Globalization - Destroying Jobs, Increasing Deflation * A Localist Wake-up Call to Political Activists * Failure to Adequately Champion Globalization - Social Services, Unions and Culture * Localizing International Development * Localizing Food Security * The WTO and the Environment * Controversial Conclusion - Localization Will Bale Out the Market * Appendices * A Global Manifesto * Notes and References * Suggested Reading

O autorze

COLIN HINES is a Fellow of the International Forum on Globalization, former head of Greenpeace's International Economics Unit and co-author of The New Protectionism: Protecting the Future Against Free Trade.