The Case Against the Global Economy: And for a Turn Toward the LocalJerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith Expressed in such new institutions as GATT, NAFTA, the World Trade Organizations, and Maastricht, as well as by the development schemes of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, economic globalization has been bulldozed through legislative bodies throughout the world, with scant public debate or discourse. These tremendous changes are hailed by their backers as leading to a new era or prosperity and peace, but is this true? Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive point-by-point analysis of the workings of the global economy, its premises, and its dire implications told by more than forty of the world's leading social, environmental, and economic thinkers from the America's, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. They charge that free trade and economic globalization create exactly the opposite results from what is promised. Each of the forty-three chapters in The Case Against the Global Economy takes one part of the story and delves into it, to show both the root assumptions of globalism and its multiple failures. In the end, it is clear that we need to reverse course; away from the global toward a revitalization of local political and economic control, self-sufficiency, and ecological health. |
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... LIMITS TO GLOBAL LIMITS The signs are clear that we have already fouled our nest . There is hardly a place on this earth where traces of the human economy are absent : From the center of Antarctica to Mount Everest , human wastes are ...
... LIMITS TO GLOBAL LIMITS The signs are clear that we have already fouled our nest . There is hardly a place on this earth where traces of the human economy are absent : From the center of Antarctica to Mount Everest , human wastes are ...
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... limits are near . First Evidence of Limits : Human Biomass Appropriation The best evidence that there is an absolute limit is the calculation by Vi- tousek and others in Bioscience ( 1986 ) that the human economy - directly or ...
... limits are near . First Evidence of Limits : Human Biomass Appropriation The best evidence that there is an absolute limit is the calculation by Vi- tousek and others in Bioscience ( 1986 ) that the human economy - directly or ...
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... limits of the ecosystem's regenerative and assimilative capacities , throughput growth exceeding such limits will not herald sustainability . Second , the size of the service sector relative to the production of goods has limits . Third ...
... limits of the ecosystem's regenerative and assimilative capacities , throughput growth exceeding such limits will not herald sustainability . Second , the size of the service sector relative to the production of goods has limits . Third ...
Contents
The Failures of Bretton Woods | 20 |
THE MULTIPLE IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION | 31 |
Global Economy and the Third World | 47 |
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