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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... Helena Norberg - Hodge so artfully describes in the case of Ladakh . The point is further amplified by Martin Khor's eloquent recitation of the effects of economic globalization in the Third World and in the industrial world ; and by ...
... Helena Norberg - Hodge so artfully describes in the case of Ladakh . The point is further amplified by Martin Khor's eloquent recitation of the effects of economic globalization in the Third World and in the industrial world ; and by ...
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... Helena Norberg - Hodge For thirty years , on three continents , Swedish philosopher , teacher , and activist Helena Norberg - Hodge has been fighting the excesses of today's economic de- velopment models , particularly their effects on ...
... Helena Norberg - Hodge For thirty years , on three continents , Swedish philosopher , teacher , and activist Helena Norberg - Hodge has been fighting the excesses of today's economic de- velopment models , particularly their effects on ...
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... Helena Norberg - Hodge - - The arguments for changing directions — that is , for abandoning the emerging global economy in favor of community - based , localized , highly diversified economies — may be compelling , but such a change is ...
... Helena Norberg - Hodge - - The arguments for changing directions — that is , for abandoning the emerging global economy in favor of community - based , localized , highly diversified economies — may be compelling , but such a change is ...
Contents
Facing the Rising Tide | 3 |
The Failures of Bretton Woods | 20 |
THE MULTIPLE IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION | 31 |
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