The Case Against the Global Economy: And for a Turn toward the Local

ISBN 10: 0871568659 / ISBN 13: 9780871568656

Published by Sierra Club Books, 1997

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Synopsis:

A great political debate has emerged over the many unexpected and profound consequences of the rush toward the global economy. The world's political and corporate leaders are restructuring the planet's economy and political arrangements in ways that will affect humans and the environment more than anything since the Industrial Revolution. Global institutions such as GATT, the World Trade Organization, NAFTA, and the World Bank, created with scant public debate or scrutiny, have moved real power away from citizens and nation states to global bureaucracies, with grave results.
The Case Against the Global Economy is the first comprehensive point-by-point analysis of the global economy, its premises, and its social and environmental implications. The work gathers forty-three leading economic, agricultural, and environmental experts who charge that free trade and economic globalization are producing exactly the opposite results from what has been promised.
Contributors include William Greider, Jeremy Rifkin, Ralph Nader, Vandana Shiva, David Korten, Wendell Berry, Kirkpatrick Sale, Herman E. Daly, Richard Barnet, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and more than thirty other analysts of the global economy.

About the Author: Jerry Mander
Jerry Mander is president of the International Forum on Globalization, programme director of the Foundation for Deep Ecology and a senior fellow at the Public Media Center, a non-profit social and environmental advertising company. His books include Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and In the Absence of the Sacred.
Edward Goldsmith
Edward Goldsmith is the founder of The Ecologist, Europe’s leading environmental magazine, and author of numerous books, including, A Blueprint for Survival, A Stable Society and The Way: An Ecological Worldview. He is also a member of the International Forum on Globalization.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Case Against the Global Economy: And for...
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good