| Description |
viii, 328 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Facing the Rising Tide -- 1. Development as Colonialism / Edward Goldsmith -- 2. The Failure of Bretton Woods / David Korten -- 3. Technologies of Globalization / Jerry Mander -- 4. Electronic Money and the Casino Economy / Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh -- 5. Mechanisms of Corporate Rule / Tony Clarke -- 6. The Rules of Corporate Behaviour / Jerry Mander -- 7. Monsanto: A Profile of Corporate Arrogance / Brian Tokar -- 8. The Wal-Martians Have Landed / Andrew Rowell -- 9. Free Trade: The Great Destroyer / David Morris -- 10. Structural Adjustment Programmes / Walden Bello -- 11. Jurassic Fund / Walden Bello -- 12. Seeds of Exploitation: Free Trade Zones in the Global Economy / Alexander Goldsmith -- 13. The Global Economy and the Developing World / Martin Khor -- 14. The Pressure to Modernize and Globalize / Helena Norberg-Hodge -- 15. Homogenization of Global Culture / Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh -- 16. The World Trade Organization's Five-Year Record: Seattle in Context / Lori Wallach -- 17. The Environmental Cost of Economic Globalization / Simon Retallack -- 18. The World Trade Organization and Developing World Agriculture / Vandana Shiva -- 19. The World Trade Organization and the Liberalization of Trade in Healthcare and Services / Agnes Bertrand and Laurence Kalafatides -- 20. Fuelling Climate Change / Ladan Sobhani and Simon Retallack -- 21. Shifting Direction: From Global Dependence to Local Interdependence / Helena Norberg-Hodge -- 22. Conserving Communities / Wendell Berry -- 23. Local Money: A Currency for Every Community / Perry Walker and Edward Goldsmith -- 24. Saving Our Small Farms and Rural Communities / Jules Pretty -- 25. The New Protectionism of 'Localization' / Colin Hines and Tim Lang -- 26. The Last Word / Edward Goldsmith |
| Summary |
A point-by-point analysis of the premises and implications of economic globalization |
| Analysis |
Macroeconomics International economics |
| Notes |
Originally published: The case against the global economy: and for a turn toward the local / edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith. San Francisco, Calif. : Sierra, 1996 |
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Reprinted 2003 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
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Environmental policy -- International cooperation.
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Sustainable development.
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Environmental economics.
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| Author |
Mander, Jerry, editor
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Goldsmith, Edward, 1928-2009, editor
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| LC no. |
00002293 |
| ISBN |
1853837423 (paperback) |
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1853837415 (hardback) |
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9781853837425 |
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