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The case against the global economy : and for a turn towards localization / edited by Edward Goldsmith, Jerry Mander

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Earthscan Publications Limited, 2001 Description: viii, 328 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1853837423
  • 9781853837425
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.7
LOC classification:
  • HD 75.6  C337 2001
Contents:
Introduction: facing the Rising Tide * Part 1 Engines of Globalization: Development as Colonialism * The Failure of Bretton Woods * Technologies of Globalization * Electronic Money and the Casino Economy * Mechanisms of Corporate Rule * The Rules of Corporate Behaviour * Monsanto - A Profile of Corporate Arrogance * The Wal-Martians Have Landed * Free Trade - The Great Destroyer * Part 2 Impacts of Globalization: Structural Adjustment Programmes * Jurassic Fund * Seeds of Exploitation - Free Trade Zones in the Global Economy * The Global Economy and the Developing World * The Pressure to Modernize and Globalize * Homogenization of Global Culture * The World Trade Organization's Five-year Record - Seattle in Context * The Environmental Cost of Economic Globalization * The World Trade Organization and Developing World Agriculture * The World Trade Organization and the Liberalization of Trade in Healthcare and Services * Fuelling Climate Change * Part 3 Steps Towards Relocation: Shifting Direction - from Global Dependence to Local Interdependence * Conserving Communities * Local Money - a Currency for Every Community * Saving our Small Farms and Rural Communities * The New Protectionism of 'Localization' * The Last Word * References * Index
Summary: A point-by-point analysis of the premises and implications of economic globalization
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HD 75.6 C337 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000014011

Completely revised and updated international edition"--Page 4 of cover

Introduction: facing the Rising Tide * Part 1 Engines of Globalization: Development as Colonialism * The Failure of Bretton Woods * Technologies of Globalization * Electronic Money and the Casino Economy * Mechanisms of Corporate Rule * The Rules of Corporate Behaviour * Monsanto - A Profile of Corporate Arrogance * The Wal-Martians Have Landed * Free Trade - The Great Destroyer * Part 2 Impacts of Globalization: Structural Adjustment Programmes * Jurassic Fund * Seeds of Exploitation - Free Trade Zones in the Global Economy * The Global Economy and the Developing World * The Pressure to Modernize and Globalize * Homogenization of Global Culture * The World Trade Organization's Five-year Record - Seattle in Context * The Environmental Cost of Economic Globalization * The World Trade Organization and Developing World Agriculture * The World Trade Organization and the Liberalization of Trade in Healthcare and Services * Fuelling Climate Change * Part 3 Steps Towards Relocation: Shifting Direction - from Global Dependence to Local Interdependence * Conserving Communities * Local Money - a Currency for Every Community * Saving our Small Farms and Rural Communities * The New Protectionism of 'Localization' * The Last Word * References * Index

A point-by-point analysis of the premises and implications of economic globalization

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