by localisewm | Jul 31, 2018 | Banks, City council, Employment, Energy, Environment, Finance, Local economies, Low carbon, Manufacturing, Renewable energy, Tax, Transition
Voters in Los Angeles will be the first in the United States to choose whether to set up their city’s own public bank to serve the people instead of private interests. LA’s charter currently prohibits the creation of industrial or commercial enterprises by the city...
by localisewm | Jan 31, 2016 | Books and articles, Democracy, Devolution, Economics, Education, Employment, Government, Health, Local economies, Local government, Localisation, Localism, People power, Planning, Politics, Regional economies, Tax, Transition
A notable omission from Localise West Midlands’ extensive range of articles about, or with references to localism, is a review of a book by Simon Jenkins: Big Bang Localism: a rescue plan for British democracy. In this book he attributes the decline in British voter...
by localisewm | Aug 3, 2015 | Council, Economy, Energy, Finance, Microfinance, Tax, Trade, Transition, Uncategorized
In March LWM’s co-ordinator reported the local interest in the potential of a Birmingham Pound – the Birmingham Mail following up one tweet about a first-stage meeting of a few potentially interested people. News of an increasingly well-developed scheme in Bristol...
by localisewm | Apr 28, 2015 | Planning, Retail, Social Enterprise, Tax
The Fair Tax Mark is being adopted by UK business setting a new standard in responsible tax practice – from the smallest shop to the biggest multinational. It is the label for good taxpayers – companies and organisations that are proud to pay their fair share of...
by localisewm | May 7, 2014 | Books and articles, Economics, Economy, Employment, Environment, EU, Export-led growth, Finance, Globalisation, Import substitution, Local economies, Localisation, Planning, Procurement, Regional economies, Tax, Trade, Transition
In the French election, left wing socialist Jean-Luc Melenchon has stressed the need to relocalise Europe’s economy and to do so by limiting imports. This has brought Melenchon increased votes in a country where 70% of the population favour some form of...
by localisewm | Jun 1, 2013 | Democracy, Economy, EU, Finance, Legal action, Politics, Tax
Prem Sikka, Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex Business School sends the news that the Twitter age is about to chalk up its first success in the grey world of corporate accounting. In an article in The Conversation, he records that – for the...
