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The case against the global economy : and for a turn toward the local / edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith.

San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, ©1996.

x, 550 pages ; 24 cm

"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."--Jacket

Economic development -- Environmental aspects.

Environmental policy -- International cooperation.

Sustainable development.

Environmental economics.

Mander, Jerry.

Goldsmith, Edward, 1928-2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-531) and index.

Facing the rising tide / Jerry Mander -- The failures of Bretton Woods / David C. Korten -- The pressure to modernize and globalize / Helena Norberg-Hodge -- Global economy and the third world / Martin Khor -- Homogenization of education / Maude Barlow and Heather-jane Robertson -- Homogenization of global culture / Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh -- Global trade and the environment / Edward Goldsmith -- GATT, NAFTA, and the subversion of the democratic process / Ralph Nader and Lori Wallach -- New technology and the end of jobs / Jeremy Rifkin -- Control of the world's food supply / Karen Lehman and Al Krebs -- Biocolonization: the patenting of life and the global market in body parts / Andrew Kimbrell -- Piracy by patent: the case of the neem tree / Vandana Shiva and Radha Holla-Bhar -- Globalization, development, and the spread of disease / Harvard Working Group on New and Resurgent Diseases -- The winners and the losers / James Goldsmith.

The mythic victory of market capitalism / David C. Korten.

Sustainable growth? No thank you / Herman E. Daly -- The need for new measurements of progress / Ted Halstead and Clifford Cobb -- Growth has reached its limit / Robert Goodland -- Free trade: the great destroyer / David Morris -- Free trade: the perils of deregulation / Herman E. Daly -- Neo-development: "global ecological management" / Wolfgang Sachs -- Development as colonialism / Edward Goldsmith -- Seeds of exploitation: free trade zones in the global economy / Alexander Goldsmith -- Structural adjustment and the polarization of Mexican society / Carlos Heredia and Mary Purcell -- Structural adjustment programs: "success" for whom? / Walden Bello -- Mechanisms of corporate rule / Tony Clarke -- The rules of corporate behavior / Jerry Mander -- "Citizen" GE / William Greider -- Wal-Mart: global retailer / Kai Mander and Alex Boston -- Technologies of globalization / Jerry Mander -- Electronic money and the casino economy / Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh.

Exercising power over corporation: through state charters / Richard L. Grossman and Frank T. Adams -- Shifting direction: from global dependence to local interdependence / Helena Norberg-Hodge -- Conserving communities / Wendell Berry -- Gandhi's Swadeshi: the economics of permanence / Satish Kumar -- Community supported agriculture: farming with a face on it / Daniel Imhoff -- Communities: building authority, responsibility, and capacity / David Morris -- Community money: the potential of local currency / Susan Meeker-Lowry -- "Sharing one skin": Okanagan community / Jeannette Armstrong -- Principles of bioregionalism / Kirkpatrick Sale -- In favor of a new protectionism / Colin Hines and Tim Lang -- Cross-border organizing / Mark Ritchie -- The last word: family, community, democracy / Edward Goldsmith.

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