The Case Against the Global Economy

Part 1 Engines of globalization: Development as Colonialism, Edward Goldsmith; The Failure of Bretton Woods, David Korten; Technologies of Globalization, Jerry Mander; Electronic Money and the Casino Economy, Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh; Mechanisms of Corporate Rule, Tony Clarke; The Rules of Corporate Behaviour, Jerry Mander; Monsanto - A Profile of Corporate Arrogance, Brian Tokar; The Wal-Martians Have Landed, Andrew Rowell; Free Trade - The Great Destroyer, David Morris. Part 2 Impacts of globalization: structural adjustment programmes, Walden Bello; Jurassic Fund, Walden Bello; Seeds of exploitation - free trade zones in the global economy, Alexander Goldsmith; the global economy and the developing world, Martin Khor; the pressure to modernize and globalize, Helena Norberg-Hodge; Homogenization of Global Culture, Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh; The World Trade Organization's five-year record - Seattle in context, Lori Wallach; the environmental cost of economic globalization, Simon Retallack; the World Trade Organization and developing world agriculture, Vandana Shiva; the World Trade Organization and the liberalization of trade in healthcare and services, Agnes Bertrand and Laurence Kalafatides; fuelling climate change, Ladan Sobhani and Simon Retallack. Part 3 Steps towards relocation: shifting direction - from global dependence to local interdependence, Helena Norberg-Hodge; conserving communities, Wendell Berry; local money - a currency for every community, Perry Walker and Edward Goldsmith; saving our small farms and rural communities, Jules Pretty; the new protectionism of "localization", Colin Hines and Tim Lang; the last word, Edward Goldsmith.