Localization : a global manifesto / Colin Hines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hines, Colin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations.

Competition, International.

Nation-state.

Free trade--Environmental aspects.

Free trade.

Free trade--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xiv, 290 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2000.

Summary:

A great many people recognize that globalization is destructive, undermining local livelihoods, ways of life and environments. Governments hold up international competitiveness as the be-all and end-all of policy, presenting globalization as inevitable. It isn't, as Colin Hines shows in this persuasive and passionate polemic. Local economies, local autonomy and local democracy can all be protected -- globally -- if the aid and trade rules are changed. Localization 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. It will be a rallying call against the runaway juggernaut of the global economy at the start of the 21st century.

Contents:

Part 1 The Problem

Globalization

1 Globalization

What it is and the Damage it Does 3

2 History and WTO Enforcing of Comparative Advantage 9

3 Theory and Attempted Enforcement of Capital Advantage 17

Part 2 The Solution

Localization

4 From Globalization to Localization

A Potential Rallying Call 27

5 Localization

Increasing Community Renewal 37

6 'Protect the Local, Globally'

A Route to Localization 62

7 Localizing Production and Dismantling Transnational Companies 68

8 Localizing Capital 79

9 A Localist Competition Policy 98

10 Taxes for Localization 108

11 Democratic Localism 118

12 Trade and Aid for Localization 130

Part 3 How Localization Might Come About

13 Growing Opposition 151

14 Globalization

Destroying Jobs, Increasing Deflation 157

15 A Localist Wake-up Call to Political Activists 169

16 Failure to Adequately Champion Globalization

Social Services, Unions and Culture 176

17 Localizing International Development 186

18 Localizing Food Security 210

19 The WTO and the Environment 218

A Controversial Conclusion

Localization Will Bale Out the Market 237

Appendix I Answers to Some Criticisms of the Protect the Local, Globally Form of Localization 242

Appendix II 'Making' Money to Fund Employment, a Citizen's Income and the Shift to Localization 246

A Global Manifesto 256.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1853836125

OCLC:

43500352