by Michael H Shuman
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Defenders of globalization, free markets, and free trade insist there's no alternative to mega-stores like Wal-Mart -- Michael Shuman begs to differ. In "The Small-Mart Revolution, Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model, one in which communities reap the benefits of "going local" in four key spending categories: goods, services, energy, and finance. He argues that despite the endless media coverage of multinational conglomerates, local businesses give more to charity, adapt more easily to rising labor and environmental standards, and produce more wealth for a community. They also spend more locally, thereby increasing community income and creating wealth and jobs. "The Small-Mart Revolution presents a visionary yet practical roadmap for everyone concerned with mitigating the worst of globalization.
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 Not as good as it could have been, 2008-07-24
It's a great primer for local sustainability, but lacks much of the detail needed for implementing the concepts suggested. I recommend it for anyone starting out on local ED work.
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 A must read for everyone concerned with our future!, 2008-07-20
Michael Shuman follows his earlier "Going Local" with this wonderful volume that continues to make the case for building economies from the inside out. This is an approach that makes the best sense, particularly as we face not only economic disaster, but unprecedented energy and climate challenges. I couldn't recommend this book more highly.
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The Thomas Friedmans of the world need to look out!, 2007-12-09
In one brief and well-crafted volume, Michael Shuman has managed to explain both the wide range of effects of the multinational corporation's hegemony and the backlash against this hegemony. Shuman cites examples on the national and local scales of how "Locally-owned, import substitution" trends are arising on the systemic and unitary levels, often discussing how small businesses and public/consumer initiatives are developing new strategies to fight back against an economy dominated by big business.
Of course, Shuman seems to miss a number of points along the way, but there are a lot of technical questions of things like trade, fiscal, and other economic policy that wouldn't really fit in with this book-- this is a good kind of response to a book like Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat, or, Why We Are Powerless to Stop The Global Economy". If you're looking for a how-to guide, though, this will certainly illuminate questions of how and why things happen the way they do and examples of how everything is changing.
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Small Mart Revolution - Refocusing on what's important, 2007-08-09
Michael Shulman has done a heroic job shifting our focus to what really matters. There is a great deal of focus in government and in the media on what large corporations are doing. Shulman shows that the majority of our economic activity is based on what small businesses, government entities, non-profits and cooperatives are doing, right here in our local communities - in spite of the fact that large corporations receive a disporporationate share of government subsidies.
Shulman helps us deepen our understanding of what it means to buy local. There aren't just two modes - buying local or buying multi-national. He describes all the choices in between and helps us understand their impact on our local economies.
I've bought five copies already and given them all away. I'm buying another today. It's time to refocus our economic development back home and build the small mart revolution. This book is helping to make that hapen.
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 Interesting and Dinamic !, 2007-06-28
This book brings some themes about the impact of the Big Companies into the small comunities . It's a great oportunity to think about the risks of the global business.
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