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Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possible - A Report of the International Forum on Globalization
ISBN: 1576752046
General description: The culmination of a three-year project to define alternatives to the contemporary corporate model of globalization, this document forms the official consensus report of The International Forum on Globalization, an alliance of leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity and public education in response to economic globalization. This book ISBN: 1576752046 provides and defines constructive, coherent and positive alternatives to the contemporary corporate model of globalization on behalf of the anti-globalization/living democracy movement
Written by a premier group of thinkers from around the world, Alternatives to Economic Globalization is the defining document of the anti- Corporate Globalization movement. The culmination of a three-year project by the International Forum on Globalization, whose members include Ralph Nader, David Korten, John Cavanagh, Lori Wallach, and Jerry Mander, it presents both a sober critique of globalization as well as practical, thoughtful alternatives. The authors assert ten core requirements for democratic societies, including equality, basic human rights, local decision making, and ecological sustainability, and demonstrate how globalization undermines each. Offering specific strategies for reining in corporate domination, they address alternative systems for energy, agriculture, transportation, and manufacturing; ideas for weakening or dismantling the WTO, World Bank, and IMF; and rebuilding economies that are responsive to human needs. |
