ABSTRACT
If one wishes to push the comparison, it may be best to think of present-day localism as ‘Small Is Beautiful 2.0’, this time with an economic base in a preexisting economic class and with greater concern for independent ownership than for appropriate technology. Even that qualified comparison should not be pushed too far, because the class basis of present-day localism is considerably different from that of ‘small is beautiful’ economics, which remained rooted in a vision of building appropriated organisations and technologies for the world’s working class and poor people (Hess, 2009, p. 50).
