304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Localization is a manifesto to unite all those who recognize the importance of cultural, social and ecological diversity for our future - and who do not aspire to a monolithic global consumer culture. It is a passionate and persuasive polemic, challenging the claims that we have to be 'internationally competitive' to survive and describing the destructive consequences of globalization. This book... Read more
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
Biography
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.
