Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in A Global Age

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Going Local! Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age.(Review) : An article from: Dollars & Sense

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Going Local! Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age.(Review) : An article from: Dollars & Sense
Thad Williamson
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Howie Hawkins
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Michael H. Shuman. Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Utopian Studies

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Michael H. Shuman. Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Utopian Studies
Margie DeWeese-Boyd
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Author: Margie DeWeese-Boyd
Publication: Utopian Studies (Refereed)
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Financing Large Projects: Using Project Finance Techniques and Practices
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A Useful Primer for Infrastructure Project Finance Technique

Financing Large Projects: Using Project Finance Techniques and Practices
M. Fouzul Kabir Khan , and Robert J. Parra
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Financing Large Projects is one of the most comprehensive books written on the art of project finance. Project finance is a technique employed for the purpose of mobilizing capital for very large start-up projects, or greenfields, based on the cash flow merits of the project--usually with little or no external support provided by parent companies in the form of guarantees. Unlike other books, this one addresses the financial, technical, legal and environmental aspects of financing complex projects. In explaining the principles involved, the authors followed the project development cycle illustrating how projects are evolved from inception, usually through international competitive bidding, to financial closure when all debt and equity needed to construct and operate the project that has been mobilized.

The book is particularly thorough in explaining the criteria used by bankers and lawyers to distinguish projects that are bank-able from those that are not. It has some good sections, particularly apt for banking professionals, on the intricacies of international law as it impinges on project finance.

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Reasonable but an introduction only.......2005-10-26

The book is a reasonable introduction to project financing but falls short on many of the pratical details used in balancing risks, which is the essence of project financing.

I was keen to see how the book covered the financing of port projects and I found that the authors summarised a 1998 publication By Drewry shipping without adding any new insights. Indeed the 1998 publication provides more pratical benchmarks and financing options.

A Useful Primer for Infrastructure Project Finance Technique.......2003-03-29

Financing Large Projects: Using Project Finance Techniques and Practices by Fouzul Khan, Robert Parra is a very useful primer for project finance practitioners.

This book focuses on the financing of large projects that rely on project finance techniques and practices in order to raise debt. Being in infrastructure financing industry over four (4) years, I faced a tremendous dearth of a good book covering infrastructure financing intricacies. The book has offered knowledge of my much needed felt areas.

The book integrates every essential aspects of issues relating to the financing of large projects, namely, financing, law, engineering, environmental, etc. It also has a detailed description on history of project finance along with origin and development of various instruments.

What a user shall find noteworthy about the book is that it covers different phases of project development, and attributes thereof. Starting from the project conception, the book goes on explaining project negotiation, appraisal, creation and perfection of security over project assets.

The first half of the book describes project origination and early development activities, negotiations with ceding authority and others of project agreements, sources of international finance and credit enhancements, and the sponsor's support required for classic and non-classic deals. The second half discusses the architecture of the typical financial model, due diligence and appraisal process conducted by lenders, scope and content of negotiations related to each of several finance documents, role of derivatives and hedges, and typical issues encountered in structuring a security package.

Finally, the book also appends a very useful project feasibility financial model, which could be customized for use in feasibility analysis of similar projects.

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Review of Health Law: Cases and Materials.......2006-11-05

This book offers a comprehensive review of various issues in Health Law. It covers topics ranging from ERISA to Stem Cell Research. The authors did a great job researching each topic but did not really organize the information efficiently. They could have done a better job of using more extensive and topic organized notes sections after cases to explain complex issues like ERISA preemption or embryo parental rights. As a result, many times I felt the cases were compiled without really allowing the reader to understand the significance of each case with respect to the topic at hand.

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No better guide to today's health news.......2005-06-16

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Excellent & Comprehensive!.......2000-09-10

This text is indispensible and required reading for anyone interested in health law. The book gives an in-depth overview of issues and problems that currently exist in this interesting area of law. As a law student, this book was very useful in providing concise portrayals of issues facing the health industry from all angles, not just legal perspectives. I would also suggest this book to anyone who wants to get their feet wet in health law. It is a bit advanced, so if one is just starting out, the language may be confusing and require a dictionary. Otherwise, it is highly recommended.

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