Douthwaite, Richard (2004) Protecting and developing local economies. In: Unsettling the horses: Interogatting adult education. MACE: Maynooth Adult and Community Education, pp. 162-178.

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Why should anyone want to swim against what appears to be the tide of history by attempting to rebuild local economic systems which, over the past century, have been almost entirely swept away? Don't small countries and the regions within larger ones really have no option but to participate in the global economy in a whole-hearted way? This chapter will explore the answers to these questions. Certainly, rebuilding a local economy is not an easy option, but I hope to show that it is one that is definitely worth making the effort to achieve. Few of us would worry about the regions in which we live being entirely absorbed into the global economy if that system was equitable, sustainable, and worked reliably and well. But it is none of these, which is why we need both to develop local alternatives to it and also to attempt its reform. Let's look at each of these three areas in turn to see the extent to which the global economy fails. First, is it equitable?

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Adult education perspectives
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Adult and Community Education
Item ID:	329
Depositing User:	Prof. Anne Ryan
Date Deposited:	07 Apr 2008
Journal or Publication Title:	Unsettling the horses: Interrogating adult education
Publisher:	MACE: Maynooth Adult and Community Education
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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