The culmination of a five-year project by the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), this book presents an inspiring plan for moving toward more sustainable, humanistic models of economic prosperity with an emphasis on citizen democracies, local self-sufficiency, and ecological health. Areas of discussion include the ten core requirements for democratic societies as well as alternative systems of energy, agriculture, and manufacturing. Written by a premier group of 18 thinkers from around the world and edited by best-selling authors John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander, this revised and expanded edition represents the official consensus of the living democracy movement. Delving into the most compelling alternatives to globalization thus far, it features a chart on the effects of globalization and three entirely new chapters on the global balance of power, the media, and what ordinary people can do about globalization.
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John Cavanagh is director of the Institute for Policy Studies and vice-president of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) Board of Directors Jerry Mander is President of the IFG Board of Directors and senior fellow at the Public Media Center
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Globalisation is one of the most complex and influential movements of our time. Driven by major corporations in the West, it seeks to operate financial and commercial transactions to the benefit of all humans. In practice, there are few winners except the transnational corporations themselves. Having monopolised markets and financial institutions, corporations have also drawn up legal procedures whereby they can bypass even the nation state itself. The effects on poorer countries of the planet are devastating.
The impact of globalisation touches the lives of everybody on planet earth today. We need to be aware of how it works;only then do we stand any real chance of challenging and redirecting its movements. Among the many books on the subject, few are as simply but comprehensively written as the present volume. It provides an excellent overview with some valuable suggestions on how we can work together to create alternative startegies for a more just and equitable world order.
The impact of globalisation touches the lives of everybody on planet earth today. We need to be aware of how it works;only then do we stand any real chance of challenging and redirecting its movements. Among the many books on the subject, few are as simply but comprehensively written as the present volume. It provides an excellent overview with some valuable suggestions on how we can work together to create alternative startegies for a more just and equitable world order.
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We live in a world dominated by corporate superpowers that have no regard for the long-term welfare of the people, the economy, or the environment. These large transnational firms are reshaping the world and perpetuating a mass homogenization of cultures around the world. Many of the largest conglomerates in the world are American-owned. They export products and images that promote their bottom lines, not the welfare of individual countries or people. They covertly shift billions of dollars between different countries overnight or build retail chains that desecrate local economies. The sheer size and power of these organizations leaves many of us paralyzed with a lingering sense of disempowerment and an inability to imagine effective solutions.
This book offers us concrete answers and a list of actions we can take. The topical chapters allow you to go straight to the information you want and discover both grassroots and legislative solutions. As an additional bonus, a panel of experts in the various fields back up their perspectives with solid facts and figures. This is a indispensable book for any concerned citizen and an engaging read from cover to cover.
This book offers us concrete answers and a list of actions we can take. The topical chapters allow you to go straight to the information you want and discover both grassroots and legislative solutions. As an additional bonus, a panel of experts in the various fields back up their perspectives with solid facts and figures. This is a indispensable book for any concerned citizen and an engaging read from cover to cover.
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An excellent cast of authors and leading thinkers cover many aspects of how current forms of market fundamentalist oligarchic corporate interests shape a form of globalisation that limits the benefits and exascerbate the challenges posed by the changes brought on by globalisation. In stark contrast to the media's portrayal of knee jerk reactions to modern realities this book presents a very deep understanding of the challenges and the opportunities before us. It offers alternatives at a time when prevailing dogma has it that there are no alternatives and that the ills we see around us are inevitable and for the better good. It also points out the tremendous cummulative danger of the current direction many international developments are taking. It is not a book about going backwards but about moving into new territory beyond the deadlocks of the past.
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THREE LANDMARK EVENTS in 2003 punctuated the end of "the Golden Era" of corporate-driven economic globalization, the domination of the so-called Washington Consensus, and the ability of the United States to unilaterally dictate the course of global economic and political affairs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
corporate globalists, common heritage resources, global bureaucracies, fair trade organizations, corporate personhood, states http, corporate globalization, globalization model, externalized costs, public trust doctrine, water privatization, industrial agriculture, global corporations, modern commons, media reform Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World Bank, United Nations, Bretton Woods, World Trade Organization, Third World, New York, International Forum, Latin America, San Francisco, Uruguay Round, South Africa, European Union, General Agreement, South Korea, World War, United Kingdom, Free Trade Area of the Americas, Council of Canadians, Food First, Landless Workers Movement, New Zealand, Supreme Court, Vandana Shiva, White Earth New!
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THREE LANDMARK EVENTS in 2003 punctuated the end of "the Golden Era" of corporate-driven economic globalization, the domination of the so-called Washington Consensus, and the ability of the United States to unilaterally dictate the course of global economic and political affairs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
corporate globalists, common heritage resources, global bureaucracies, fair trade organizations, corporate personhood, states http, corporate globalization, globalization model, externalized costs, public trust doctrine, water privatization, industrial agriculture, global corporations, modern commons, media reform Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World Bank, United Nations, Bretton Woods, World Trade Organization, Third World, New York, International Forum, Latin America, San Francisco, Uruguay Round, South Africa, European Union, General Agreement, South Korea, World War, United Kingdom, Free Trade Area of the Americas, Council of Canadians, Food First, Landless Workers Movement, New Zealand, Supreme Court, Vandana Shiva, White Earth New!
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- The Case Against the Global Economy: And for a Turn toward the Local by Jerry Mander on 6 pages
- Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken on page 186, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- State of the World 2003 by The Worldwatch Institute in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Views from the South by International Forum on Globalization on page 117, and Back Matter
- Localization: A Global Manifesto by Colin Hines on page 152, and Back Matter
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- The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (BK Currents (Hardcover)) by David C. Korten in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership by Zbigniew Brzezinski on page 174, and page 176
- The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution by Robert D. Bullard in Back Matter
- The Global Class War : How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win it Back by Jeff Faux in Back Matter
- Charting Transnational Democracy: Beyond Global Arrogance by Janie Leatherman on page 217
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