How Relocalization Worked
Advocates of today's mainstream economics still commonly use the guild economies of the Middle Ages as a convenient whipping boy, following a fashion set in motion by Adam Smith. A glance at the way those older economic systems worked in a world of limited markets and difficult transportation, though, suggests that the failed economic paradigms of the present have no reason to boast. The latest grumblings from The Archdruid Report.
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About John Michael
Born in the gritty Navy town of Bremerton, Washington and raised in the south Seattle suburbs, I began writing about as soon as I could hold a pencil. SF editor George Scithers' dictum that all would-be writers have a million words of so of bad prose in them...
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John Michael’s Favorite Books
An eclectic mess of fiction and nonfiction: Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend's "Hamlet's Mill," M. John Harrison's "The Pastel City," John Michell'...