Return to Scale

The theme of the book is scale. In an age of globalisation everything seems to float up to the worldwide level. But the authors here, writing on issues ranging from corporations to food, energy, democracy, education, work, health and time itself, all argue that our well-being lies closer to home. After high profile demonstrations at several big international conferences, critics of globalisation were attacked for having no alternatives. nef and the ICA staged a series of events to show that, far from there being no alternativesto business-as-usual, there are many. This collection gives a flavour of better ways to solve the world’s problems.