Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age.
Synthesis/Regeneration › Nbr. 2000, September 2000
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Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age.
A Political Analysis of Michael H. Shuman's Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age, 1998. 309 pages. New York: Free Press, $19.
Michael Shuman focuses on what communities can do now to begin creating community-based economies. He suggests that rather than trying to directly take on American's ideological commitment to capitalism's supposed virtues, we should start by taking concrete steps to increase community self-reliance, in particular by anchoring wealth in communities with new ownership structures that limit capital's mobility. These steps are not fully socialist, but they do impinge on one of capitalism's key co...See the full content of this document
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