Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in A Global Age
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  • Creating a sustainable local economy
  • Good information, lacking actionable plans
  • interesting but not practical
  • All you need to know about community empowerment
  • A Highly Important Book for Any Concerned Citizen
Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in A Global Age
Michael H. Shuman
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5 out of 5 stars Creating a sustainable local economy.......2007-10-09

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.

4 out of 5 stars Good information, lacking actionable plans.......2006-03-21

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.

2 out of 5 stars interesting but not practical.......2004-07-13

He presents well the case for locally-owned business being better for a community's economic well-being than are chain and franchise stores, and provides lots of different examples of ways that businesses can be community oriented. I found particularly interesting the part about the Green Bay Packers, who were saved out of bankruptcy by a group of fans who sold "stock" to the community to raise the cash. You can't sell the stock to a non-GB resident, you can't own more than 1 (I think) share, and you can only sell shares at the same price you bought them for: $25. Really, sounds a lot like the ICC's shares, and it guarantees that the Pack will never leave Green Bay.

On presenting options for ownership, though, Shuman seems to go a little overboard.

When trying to decide how to promote the kinds of business he wants, Shuman starts reasonably enough, but quickly moves into the implausible. Suggestions such as using zoning law to encourage local business (by discouraging development in the locations and of the scale that WalMart likes to build) and implementing local currencies to encourage patronage of locally-oriented business are useful, and have been successfully used in many places. However, when we get into suggestions about tearing down the WTO and replacing it with something that supports local business, we're getting unreasonable. While it may be possible that the WTO would become less multinational- and more local-friendly, I'm betting that it will only do so when its member states do so, and not as a first step which will encourage its members to do so. Shuman seems to realize this to some extent, as he proposes pro-local legislation in the United States Congress, but this too is unuseful.

Fun to read, but not practical at all.

5 out of 5 stars All you need to know about community empowerment.......2004-04-24

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.

5 out of 5 stars A Highly Important Book for Any Concerned Citizen.......1999-05-25

This book cuts through all of the conventional public discussions on the economy and society to make a clear, convincing case for reviving local communities. Pundits, politicians, and intellectuals are always bemoaning the collapse of "community," but their analyses are usually coiled around morality, or the need for "better education," or some equally superficial issue. But as Shuman points out, all the civic involvement and moral uprightness in the world is useless if our towns and cities are being held hostage by globe-trotting corporations and ultra-mobile capital. "Community" is only possible if people control their own lives; and this is possible only when there are thriving, viable local economies. This is not a book that calls for a complete retreat from the global forces that are shaping our world -- that option is impossible with the current levels of technology. But what Shuman does outline is a way for communities to reestablish a balance between the local and the national/global, in the areas of production, finance, and government. And unlike many other books, which never get past the critique to make any positive prescriptions, this one is brimming with concrete proposals. It also has the most extensive list of groups, organizations, and resources that I have seen in the area of decentralized economics and community self-reliance. This is a must-read.
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                        Law and the Public's Health (Issues and problems in health care)
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                          Law and the Public's Health (Issues and problems in health care)
                          Kenneth R. Wing
                          Manufacturer: Mosby
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                          Binding: Paperback

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                          ASIN: 080165601X

                          Book Description

                          The sixth edition of Kenneth Wing's The Law and the Public's Health tailors discussions of law and the legal system to healthcare administration and policy students who do not have a background in law. With this text, students can familiarize themselves with American law, and prepare for the legal constraints and controversies they will likely encounter in their healthcare careers. With this familiarity, students can learn the skills needed to define relevant legal issues, to understand how these issues would be resolved, and perhaps most important, to seek out, communicate with, and evaluate legal counsel.

                          Benefits:
                          A new chapter focuses on the issues that arise in business transactions between providers and payers including antitrust, liability, and tax considerations
                          The text includes updates throughout, as well as expanded material on fraud and abuse laws
                          No legal background is necessary to understand this book
                          The text comes with a supplemental casebook
                          The text comes with an online Instructor's Manual

                          Contents
                          Introduction to the Sixth Edition
                          The law and the legal system
                          The power of the state governments in matters affecting health care
                          Government power and the right to privacy
                          The constitutional discretion of the state and federal governments to limit or condition social welfare benefits
                          Government regulation of health care providers and payers
                          The scope of discretion of administrative agencies in matters affecting health and health care
                          The fraud and abuse laws
                          The antitrust laws: Government enforcement of competition
                          Malpractice: Liability for negligence in the delivery and financing of health care
                          Health care business law: Legal considerations in the structuring of entities and their transactions

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                            Manufacturer: Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by University of Queensland Press
                            ProductGroup: Book
                            Binding: Unknown Binding

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