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Alternatives to economic globalization : a better world is possible / Alternatives Task Force of the International Forum on Globalization ; drafting committee, John Cavanagh ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Publication details: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler, c2002.Description: x, 268 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1576752046 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HF1359 .A547 2002
Contents:
Global Resistance -- Different Worlds -- Economic Democracy -- Momentum for Change -- Commentary--Conflicting Paradigms / Martin Khor -- IFG Alternatives Process -- A Critique of Corporate Globalization -- Key Ingredients of the Globalization Model -- Public Interest Laws as "Impediments" to Free Trade / Debi Barker, Jerry Mander -- Intrinsic Environmental Consequences of Trade-Related / Transport Jerry Mander, Simon Retallack -- Global Economic Apartheid / Robin Broad, John Cavanagh -- Bureaucratic Expressions of Economic Globalization -- Argentina and the IMF / Sarah Anderson -- The Hypocrisy of the North in the WTO / Martin Khor -- Ten Principles for Sustainable Societies -- Ten Core Principles for Sustainable Societies -- New Democracy -- Citizens' Agenda in Canada / Tony Clarke -- Subsidiarity -- Ecological Sustainability -- Sustainable Chile -- Common Heritage -- Diversity -- Cultural Diversity: The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Remain Different and Diverse / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz -- Cultural Diversity: The Right of Nations to Resist Cultural Homogenization / Maude Barlow -- Human Rights -- Jobs, Livelihood, Employment -- Food Security and Safety -- Equity -- The Precautionary Principle -- Applying the Principles to Globalization -- The Commons: What Should Be Off-Limits to Globalization? -- Understanding the Commons -- Current Threats to the Commons -- From Commons to Corporate Patents on Life / Vandana Shiva -- The Tradition of the Commons -- Threats to the Modern Commons -- Proposals -- The Case for Subsidiarity: Bias Away From the Global Toward the Local -- Understanding Subsidiarity -- The Road to the Local -- Investment and Finance Issues -- Response to Critics of Subsidiarity -- Corporate Structure and Power -- Corporate Structure Today -- Citizen Actions Against Corporate Power -- Ending Corporate-State Collusion -- Toward Alternative Business Structures -- Alternative Operating Systems -- Energy Systems -- Transportation Systems -- Curitiba, An Ecological City / Simon Retallack -- Agriculture and Food Systems -- Cuban Organic Agriculture / Helena Norberg-Hodge, Todd Merrifield, Steven Gorelick -- Manufacturing Systems -- Measurements of Economic Progress -- From Bretton Woods to Alternatives -- A Review of the Current Situation -- Unemployment, The Role of Monetary Policy / Martin Khor -- Essential Rules of a Just and Sustainable International Trade and Finance System -- Restructuring the Institutional Framework -- Strengthening the Countervailing Powers of the U.N. System -- Creating New Global Institutions -- The Drafters.
Summary: Written by a premier group of thinkers from around the world, this book is the defining document of the anti globalization movement and the culmination of a three-year project by the International Forum on Globalization.

"A report of the International Forum on Globalization."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-252) and index.

Global Resistance -- Different Worlds -- Economic Democracy -- Momentum for Change -- Commentary--Conflicting Paradigms / Martin Khor -- IFG Alternatives Process -- A Critique of Corporate Globalization -- Key Ingredients of the Globalization Model -- Public Interest Laws as "Impediments" to Free Trade / Debi Barker, Jerry Mander -- Intrinsic Environmental Consequences of Trade-Related / Transport Jerry Mander, Simon Retallack -- Global Economic Apartheid / Robin Broad, John Cavanagh -- Bureaucratic Expressions of Economic Globalization -- Argentina and the IMF / Sarah Anderson -- The Hypocrisy of the North in the WTO / Martin Khor -- Ten Principles for Sustainable Societies -- Ten Core Principles for Sustainable Societies -- New Democracy -- Citizens' Agenda in Canada / Tony Clarke -- Subsidiarity -- Ecological Sustainability -- Sustainable Chile -- Common Heritage -- Diversity -- Cultural Diversity: The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Remain Different and Diverse / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz -- Cultural Diversity: The Right of Nations to Resist Cultural Homogenization / Maude Barlow -- Human Rights -- Jobs, Livelihood, Employment -- Food Security and Safety -- Equity -- The Precautionary Principle -- Applying the Principles to Globalization -- The Commons: What Should Be Off-Limits to Globalization? -- Understanding the Commons -- Current Threats to the Commons -- From Commons to Corporate Patents on Life / Vandana Shiva -- The Tradition of the Commons -- Threats to the Modern Commons -- Proposals -- The Case for Subsidiarity: Bias Away From the Global Toward the Local -- Understanding Subsidiarity -- The Road to the Local -- Investment and Finance Issues -- Response to Critics of Subsidiarity -- Corporate Structure and Power -- Corporate Structure Today -- Citizen Actions Against Corporate Power -- Ending Corporate-State Collusion -- Toward Alternative Business Structures -- Alternative Operating Systems -- Energy Systems -- Transportation Systems -- Curitiba, An Ecological City / Simon Retallack -- Agriculture and Food Systems -- Cuban Organic Agriculture / Helena Norberg-Hodge, Todd Merrifield, Steven Gorelick -- Manufacturing Systems -- Measurements of Economic Progress -- From Bretton Woods to Alternatives -- A Review of the Current Situation -- Unemployment, The Role of Monetary Policy / Martin Khor -- Essential Rules of a Just and Sustainable International Trade and Finance System -- Restructuring the Institutional Framework -- Strengthening the Countervailing Powers of the U.N. System -- Creating New Global Institutions -- The Drafters.

Written by a premier group of thinkers from around the world, this book is the defining document of the anti globalization movement and the culmination of a three-year project by the International Forum on Globalization.

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