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Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age 1st Edition

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National drug chains squeeze local pharmacies out of business, while corporate downsizing ships jobs overseas. All across America, communities large and small are losing control of their economies to outside interests. Going Local shows how some cities and towns are fighting back. Refusing to be overcome by Wal-Marts and layoffs, they are taking over abandoned factories, switching to local produce and manufactured goods, and pushing banks to loan money to local citizens. Shuman details how dozens of communities are recapturing their own economies with these new strategies, investing not in outsiders but in locally owned businesses.

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Routledge
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August 9, 2021
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English
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6 x 1 x 9 inches
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336 pages
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HMMessinger

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Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2010

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I am a journalist who writes a blog about how and why to buy local. This book is the most helpful resource I have found to date. It is easy to read, well-researched and highly informative.

The chapters are divided logically and can easily stand alone. Shuman refers to a wide variety of credible sources when making his arguments: history, government statistics, economists and sociologists. The Appendix includes an extensive list of helpful organizations, businesses, non-profits, etc., complete with phone numbers, websites and email addresses. The Notes section contains a complete bibliography of all of the books referenced.

Shuman not only points out what is wrong with the practice of globalism, but also what is right about the practice of localism. What surprised me even more is that he actually makes realistic suggestions for how to practice localism.

My favorite quote from this book is in the Introduction and reads:
"Going local does not mean walling off the outside world. It means nurturing locally owned businesses which use local resources sustainably, employ local workers at decent wages, and serve primarily local consumers. It means becoming more self-sufficient and less dependent on imports. Control moves from the boardrooms of distant corporations and back into the community where it belongs."

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Harold Forbes

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Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2009

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I already believe in the tenants behind "going local". I was looking for detailed case studies on how to get it started in my community. This book is more superficial; trying to convince you that going local is a good thing. The case studies are few and barely more than mentioned. The book contains a disappointing number of "things the government should do" to force or subsidize going local - which seems anathema to me. Part of going local should be _not_ depending on the government.

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Michael Totten

Worthy of a very wide audience

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2017

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Michael Shuman opens up a world of opportunities and possibilities largely neglected in U.S. economic development policies and practices. Excellent book that well deserves widespread reading and application of insights.

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Arthur R. Costa

Creating a sustainable local economy

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2007

Michael Shuman has written a superb book on how we can begin to realize a sustainable, stable and self-sufficient local economy. While just over 200 pages, this book packs an array of insightful information and reference material. It is a handbook on how to revive what we have in part lost - local power to determine our economic and community destination. While fundamentally rooted in democratic principles, it provides a clear vision through experimental examples of what's needed in the 21st Century. It is neither anti- nor pro-capitalism, but clearly Mr. Shuman has a deep understanding of the damage and danger of global corporate capitalism as it is and has been practiced.

Going Local is not about isolationism, but grass-roots empowerment and how to make municipalities work. The treasure chest of tools to regain local self-determination through community is wonderfully explored with examples that reverberate. If you are running or thinking of running for city or state government or are an activist looking to create living democracy and to rebuild our economics where it really matters to people, then you can find no better handbook then Going Local.

As a companion, I strongly suggest the works of Henry George, who is mentioned in GL. His Progress and Poverty, once one of the major American works on sustainable economics through land value tax, has been slighted over the years. Considered one of the greatest thinkers by some of the worlds greatest thinkers, Progress and Poverty is one of the most beautifully written books on a topic not known for beauty - how progress creates poverty and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. Our cities live this reality today and both Shuman and George show us a new way.

Shuman is one of several thinkers who has extended E.F. Schumacher's powerful work on human-scalability and provides a real hands-on set of tools to realize the important vision of a sustainable world.

For those who feel like DC and even state power centers are too remote and disempowering, Shuman breaths new life in the power of going Local.

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K. Rolinson

Good information, lacking actionable plans

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2006

Great information and background for understanding the impact of 'going global' on our everday lives. Lacks solid implementatable plans for going local but does provide frameworks. Overall a good read - easy to understand and sufficiently technical to keep advanced readers entertained.

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Cameron A. Plommer

Learn some economics, People!

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2009

Economies of scale, comparative advantage, specialization? Shuman ignores all these things. There are gains from specialization and trade that most people can't conceptualize, so they resort to fuzzy feeling concepts like sustainable communities. Going Local is going backwards.

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X.S.

All you need to know about community empowerment

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2004

EVERYONE should read this book. It is very well thought out and very convincing. Change is possible by sticking together and empowering ourselves as self-reliant communities. The appendix takes up no less than a third of the whole book and is a gold mine in and of itself.

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