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In a village in Oxfordshire, an idea that is gaining ground: it's time for a new agricultural revolution

Oxford City Council has decided that we need more housing and jobs, not only in my own village of Wolvercote, north-west of the city. Under the order of the development coalition neighborhood (part of the localism bill), we, the rednecks, the ordinary Joes have a say in what should be done.

So now that the plot and meditate in the hall - and we are seeing what I hope to become a radical change in public opinion in the economy, and the balance of order. For people increasingly begin to feel that the "development" should not mean more of the same - more jobs with the city within a city and urban sprawl. Instead, we need a renewal agricultural small-scale agriculture, including horticulture, integrated into the city, and of a type that employs many people, preferably specialized, and often part-time

few brave souls in Wolvercote expressed these thoughts five years ago - but they were greeted by an awkward silence. Now, everyone except the government feels in his bones that the neoliberal party is over, the bubble based on debt is broken, that growth on economic growth in the growth of a class has always been a stupid idea and in a finite world is evidently self-immolation at large. In short, those who say we need more and better agriculture, and control in the hands of people in general rather than banks and foreign companies and speculators began to be heard. These are the main arguments.

The economic train for 30 years -. The neo-liberal market capitalism and the global financial debt-based - runs out of road. The leading theory, which says that unfettered markets can and will produce a tolerable world is bankrupt (as some people said it was from the beginning). Attempts by governments like ours, and supranational institutions like the European Union, to put it back on its perch are found guilty, the most terrible waste of effort and our (taxpayers) money

knows halfway we need something different. However, we did not need a Marxist revolution. We do not need to "destroy capitalism." We just need to restore the primitive forms of capitalism that are restricted by common sense and common morality, so that the free market is not. View Profile capitalism down the great contempt "petty bourgeoisie" will do: a nation of small producers (as Thomas Jefferson put the question) and small traders (as Adam Smith said that some years before Napoleon did)

savings should be based on real things. The foundations laid down the basis of hypothetical debt - money did not win, perhaps never will be - are not satisfactory, as many people realized for decades. While Gordon Brown and bankers, including Mervyn King, have not.

agriculture and forestry must be taken together - the wood is in the mix - and lots of fruits and resins. It's amazing what can be more and more, courtesy of natural light, if we put our minds to it. Biodiesel, vaunted, is the least interesting of agricultural products and in many ways deeply pernicious - it helps oil companies to green their image, so that our politicians and experts loose and ill-informed guests spend much of our money on it .