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A people's world : alternatives to economic globalization / John Madeley.
Lippincott Library HF1359 .M334 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Madeley, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization--Economic aspects.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 236 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Zed Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- The terrorist attacks on 9/11 shifted public attention to terrorism. But John Madeley contends that the sources that nurture violence and extremism remain rooted in a global system that has rapidly become more and more economically unjust, corporate-driven, financially unstable, and socially illegitimate. Madeley strips bare the myth that there are no alternatives to it. He looks at what needs to happen to enable alternatives to be implemented, paying particular attention to: Tackling corporate power; The World Trade Organization--reform or replace?; Switching the economic emphasis from the global to the local; and Cancellation of foreign debt. Madeley interviewed Peggy Antrobus, Walden Bello, Barry Coates, Fiona Dove, Gustavo Esteva, Hazel Henderson, Francois Houtart, Martin Khor, David Korten, Caroline Lucas MEP, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Ann Pettifor, Devinder Sharma, Vandana Shiva, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz and many others for this book.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Globalization understood
- and the alternatives
- 1 What is there to worry about? 3
- The globalizers
- The globalized
- The approaches
- 2 Globalization: what does it really mean? 15
- The new colonialism
- Undemocratic nature
- 3 Globalization: what's wrong with it? 27
- Diversity disappears
- It has not worked
- Corporate domination
- The vulnerable suffer
- Not a level playing field
- Deregulation
- Destructive competition
- Susie Emmett on Poland
- Peter Custers on disparate exchange
- 4 Alternatives to globalization: viewpoints from the South 62
- Peggy Antrobus
- Walden Bello
- Manabe Bose
- Kathy-Ann Brown
- Jayanti Durai
- Pedro Equina
- Gustavo Esteva
- Ha-Joon Chang
- Martin Khor
- Jane Ocaya-Irama
- Bir Singh Mahato
- Nelcia Marshall-Robinson
- Jennifer Mourin
- Mohau Pheko
- Danilo Ramos
- Devinder Sharma
- Vandana Shiva
- Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
- Ruchi Tripathi
- Nico Verhagen
- Simeon Waithima
- Nugroho Wienarto
- Mariama Williams
- 5 Alternatives to globalization: viewpoints from the North 77
- John Bunzl
- Barry Coates
- Fiona Dove
- Susie Emmett
- Peter Fleming
- Pippa Gallop
- George Gelber
- Ronnie Hall
- Ted van Hees
- Hazel Henderson
- John Hilary
- Francois Houtart
- Chris Keene
- David Korten
- Maura Leen
- Caroline Lucas
- Aksel Naerstad
- Helena Norberg-Hodge
- Ann Pettifor
- Andrew Simms
- Carol Wills
- Peter With
- Part II Axis of change: what we must do
- 6 Values on the move 109
- 7 Tackling corporate domination 112
- Corporate colonization of the United Nations
- Strategic options
- Codes of conduct
- Regulation
- What's standing in the way?
- Customer revolt is working
- Changing behaviour
- Shareholder pressure
- Cargill: the power of size
- 8 Tackling trade domination 136
- The World Trade Organization
- Corporate influence on the WTO
- The human rights challenge
- Doha 2001
- What needs to change?
- GATS
- Reform
- or replace?
- The MAI
- A bad master
- Cancun 2003
- How subsidies distort
- 9 Tackling debt 158
- The origins
- The shackle keepers
- HIPC's failure
- Jubilee
- The human cost
- A short-lived flurry
- The case of Malawi
- Debt takes more
- Debt relief works
- Total cancellation
- The World Bank's sister
- 10 Alternative strategies 177
- Strategies for greater self-reliance
- Food sovereignty
- Agrarian reform
- Local money
- Raising money globally: the Tobin tax
- The Tabu currency in Papua New Guinea
- Alternative trade: the future lies with the infant
- Fairtrade mark
- Fairtrade standards
- Other products
- The alternative to the flying food scandal
- Local fight-back in Bolivia
- 11 Conclusion: the urgency of alternatives 202
- Democracy
- Sustainable development
- Hope
- Annex Sources on alternative ideas and campaigning social movements 212.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-226) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1842772228
- 1842772236
- OCLC:
- 51923552
- Online:
- Publisher description
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