ahh, the web and Google. how did we ever manage before the net??? arthur
http://www.ccsd.ca/pubs/pubcat/fru.htm >From the Roots Up: Economic Development as if Community Mattered (by David P. Ross and Peter J. Usher, 1986, 191 pp., #208, $20.00) Western economies are increasingly vulnerable to unemployment, inflation, energy crises and high interest rates. This book provides an innovative perspective of the whole economy, one that is not provided by conventional indicators and analyses of the narrower market economy. Ross and Usher argue that the separation of economic and social problems encouraged by "bottom-line" thinking in business and government must be replaced by a form of "social accounting," as typified by activity in smaller structures closer to the community. Conventional solutions such as free trade, industrial specialization and employment generation through "megaprojects" are leading us in the wrong direction. Expanding the role of cooperative enterprises, small businesses, community development corporations, voluntary activity, mutual aid, and household activity will yield more informal and more appropriate solutions. >From the Roots Up explains why we need to revise our concepts of work and employment, our system of taxation and public finance, and our traditional perspectives on public issues. How to order Publications Catalogue -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Straker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Karen Watters Cole Subject: Re: [Futurework] Local living economies Karen - Very good stuff. It's obviously about taking land-use *planning* seriously and having a planning regime. But this is all so wishy-washy and not nearly as VIRILE or exciting as the thrusting forward of unfettered GROWTH. I do mean seriously that there is a gendered element here - planning is housekeeping, managing a domestic space, whereas entrepreneurial empire-building is a swashbuckling hard-nosed un-sheltered encounter with REALITY. I'll make the world, you wash up. (Our politics is overly dominated by swashbucklers *and* some would say that parliamentary systems with first-past-the-post electoral schemes are strongly *biased* in favour of swashbucklers & bullies.) Anyway, I will catch my breath now. I asked: > Has anyone done this proper kind of "social cost" > accounting? In your dispatch you mention > ... The New Rules web site ... [whose] banner reads > Designing Rules as if Community Matters. > (see www.newrules.org) and somewhere in the back of my memory is a booklet or book by David Ross (in Ottawa) called *Economics as if Communities Matter* or something like that. Arthur, you know David I think. Is this correct? Is the text on-line somewhere? (If you know then I/we don't have to search.) Thanks, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vancouver, B.C. [Outgoing mail scanned by Norton AntiVirus] _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
