Local Futures (Economics of Happiness) | Re-localize Italy, and the world. @ISECeconofhappiness | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
In this powerful message, Italian journalist and writer, Tiziana Alterio, calls for a shift towards localization. Until about 25 years ago, Italy like many countries was still mainly based on local artisanal economies of small-scale farmers and enterprises. The incursion of corporate globalization profoundly undermined these economies and led to today's economic crisis. The multiple crises we face today are not only crises of the neoliberal economic model, but of civilization itself. This crisis point, while disastrous, also presents opportunities to imagine and enact new, more courageous and visionary economic and civilizational possibilities based in feminine principles of cooperation, solidarity and sharing, and based in the re-localization of production and consumption. Such a re-localized economy would not only be more human, but would reduce wealth inequality.
In this powerful message, Italian journalist and writer, Tiziana Alterio, calls for a shift towards localization. Until about 25 years ago, Italy like many countries was still mainly based on local artisanal economies of small-scale farmers and enterprises. The incursion of corporate globalization profoundly undermined these economies and led to today's economic crisis. The multiple crises we face today are not only crises of the neoliberal economic model, but of civilization itself. This crisis point, while disastrous, also presents opportunities to imagine and enact new, more courageous and visionary economic and civilizational possibilities based in feminine principles of cooperation, solidarity and sharing, and based in the re-localization of production and consumption. Such a re-localized economy would not only be more human, but would reduce wealth inequality.
