Forum Post: Economic Localization? A human-scale economics?

I would like to mark one thread of activity plodding for many years about the destruction and degradation of neo-liberal restructuring, economic globalization, privatizations and deregulation, and that is Economic Localization. We see corporate and financial interests vested in a globalizing system of deregulation, speculation, trade, and debt; however, I want to mark that there are, often in direct contrast, thousands of organizations working for local business, decentralized energy, local food, local banking, and the support of place-based cultures and forms of knowledge. To be sure, for many this is not a new concept. I see it as a combination of some concepts of anarchism, economics, and indigenous movements. For me, it also represents possibilities for a liveable future which would not require a complete dismantling of current systems of governance. Collectively, we would demand that economics, that any centralized government, that manufacturing, industry and technology, be servants, pay obedience, to healthy, vibrant and resilient communities.

There's a new film called The Economics of Happiness which portrays quite well this distinct divide between those who would create a system for profit, and those who would create a system of people. I highly recommend it.