1 option
Deglobalization : ideas for a new world economy / Walden Bello.
Lippincott Library HF1359 .B4324 2002
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bello, Walden F.
- Series:
- Global issues series (Zed Books)
- Global issues series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International economic relations.
- Globalization--Economic aspects.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Economic aspects--Developing countries.
- International agencies.
- Developing countries.
- International agencies--Developing countries.
- Developing countries--Foreign economic relations.
- Physical Description:
- x, 132 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Dhaka : University Press ; Bangkok : White Lotus ; Nova Scotia : Fernwood ; Bangalore : Books for Change ; Cape Town : David Philip ; London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed exclusively by Palgrave, [2002]
- Summary:
- Contents: Evolution of the Current System of Global Economic Governance - Decision-Making Structures of the Multilateral Agencies - Crisis of Policy, Crisis of Legitimacy - The G-7 and Reform, 1998-2001 - Proposals for Reform of Global Economic Governance - An Alternative System of Global Economic Governance.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: The Multiple Crises of Global Capitalism 1
- From triumph to crisis 2
- Multilateralism in disarray 2
- The crisis of the neoliberal order 4
- The corporation under question 6
- Cracks in military hegemony 8
- The degeneration of liberal democracy 9
- The spectre of global deflation 13
- The rise of the movement 16
- Contradictory trends after September 11 17
- 'Imperial overstretch' 22
- Liberal democracy loses 25
- Porto Alegre and the future 27
- 2 Marginalizing the South in the International System 32
- The rise of UNCTAD 34
- The Bretton Woods twins versus the UN Development system 35
- The southern challenge in the 1970s 38
- Right-wing reaction and the demonization of the south 40
- Resubordinating the south 42
- The World Trade Organization: third pillar of the system 51
- The Group of Seven: an international directorate? 55
- 3 Sidestepping Democracy at the Multilateral Agencies 59
- The World Bank 59
- The International Monetary Fund 61
- The World Trade Organization 63
- 4 The Crisis of Legitimacy 66
- The IMF's Stalingrad 66
- The past catches up 68
- Meltzer and the World Bank 69
- The WTO on the road to Seattle 71
- 5 The Vicissitudes of Reform, 1998-2002 77
- Reforming the global financial architecture 77
- From structural adjustment to poverty reduction? 80
- Non-democratic decision-making affirmed 83
- Decision-making at the WTO: From Seattle to Doha 84
- 6 Proposals for Global Governance Reform: A Critical Analysis 91
- An economic security council? 91
- The Meltzer Commission proposal 92
- The 'back-to-the-Bretton-Woods-system' school 95
- George Soros's alternative system 99
- 7 The Alternative: Deglobalization 107
- Deconstruction 108
- Deglobalizing in a pluralist world 112
- Selected Organizations Monitoring Multilateral Organizations and Global Governance Issues 122.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [119]-121) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1842773046
- 1842773054
- 1552660990
- 818738073X
- 086486602X
- OCLC:
- 50645388
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.