Localization : a global manifesto / Colin Hines.

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications Ltd, 2000.

xiv, 290 pages ; 22 cm

This item was donated as part of the Godfrey Boyle archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference PP/GBO https://wellcomecollection.org/works/t5pbagvp

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- A Controversial Conclusion--Localization Will Bale Out the Market -- Answers to Some Criticisms of the Protect the Local, Globally Form of Localization -- 'Making' Money to Fund Employment, a Citizen's Income and the Shift to Localization -- A Global Manifesto.

Copy 1. Donor: Godfrey Boyle.

Copy 1. Dedicated and signed by the author on title page.