Introduction : political economy and globalization -- Specifying the constant of capitalism in the theory of a bourgeois utopia -- Periodizing capitalism and the world historic transmutability of capital -- Globalization and the retreat of capital to the interstices of the world -- Barbarism or...

Global problems and localist solutions -- Economic development and localist knowledge -- Can localism be just and sustainable? -- The politics of local retail -- The challenges of urban agriculture -- Local energy and the public sector -- Localism and the media -- Policies for an alternative economy