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PART I THE PROMISE OF LOCAL ECONOMIC INITIATIVES -- The Emergence of an Idea -- Consensus Policies and their Ambiguous Politics -- PART II POLICIES AND DEBATES -- The Radical Alternatives: the Right and the Left -- The Mainstream -- PART III THE LOCALNESS OF LOCAL ECONOMIC POLICY -- Are there Local Economies? -- Community, Locality and the Erosion of Place Local Control in an International Economy -- PART IV THE FUTURE OF LOCAL ECONOMIC POLICY -- The Left: Modernisation or Class Struggle? -- How Can Markets be Freed? -- The Future of the Consensus -- The International Economy and the Future of Local Economic Policy.

Sayer (1995) has argued that the division of labour has a structure that is distinct from capitalist relations of production, and, following Hayek, that it is determined most strongly by the use of knowledge by enterprises. Conscious coordination or alteration of the division of labour therefore usually result in reduced efficiency and in an authoritarian suppression of difference. In this article we argue that the division of labour in capitalism is strongly determined by conflict within and between classes, and that in the short term socialist policy can and should aim to alter it. A model of socialist economic coordination is presented which is feasible and ameliorates many of the problems of the capitalist division of labour. This model would enable the development rather than suppression of positive differences.

Argues that, despite their promise, neo-Keynesian local economic strategies suffer from major problems & unintended consequences. These originate in the attempt to privilege the productive, coordinated, socialized, & territorially defined aspects of capitalism over private ownership, value discipline, & geographical mobility; these two sets of traits in reality are both mutually dependent & inevitably in conflict. The limits of neo-Keynesian localism are ultimately set by struggle in & between classes, structured in important ways by geographical scale. 72 References. Adapted from the source document.