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Globalization

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Since the imposition of free market policies in the 1980s, globalization has come to represent an ideological battle between those who favor economic growth and deregulation through the growing power of multinational corporations, versus those who prefer a more sustainable and democratic approach to international development, socio-economic justice, and the securing of basic human rights and needs.

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To Build a Better World the Time to Act is Now

5th Sep 07 - Dr Zeki Ergas ~ STWR

Man is moving too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision, and he will never know that what hit him from behind was man ~ James G. Thurber

 
Naomi Klein's New Book a Lightning Rod

5th Sep 07 - Vit Wagner, Toronto Star

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, a painstakingly detailed analysis of how corporations manipulate natural and manmade disasters to line their pockets and further their privatizing agenda, is not a marginal, academic treatise by a lefty think tank targeted at a small, like-minded audience.

 
How the Neoliberals Stitched Up the Wealth of Nations for Themselves

Given that the crises of inequality is the predictable effect of the dismantling of public services and the deregulation of business and financial markets, given that it damages the interests of nearly everyone, how has neoliberalism come to dominate public life?

 
Living Wealth: Better Than Money

28th Aug 07 - David Korten, Yes! Magazine

If we are to slow and ultimately reverse the social and environmental disintegration we see around us, we must change the rules to curb the pervasive abuse of corporate power that contributes so much to those harms.

 
The Vanishing American Vacation

28th Aug 07 - Don Monkerud ~ STWR

In 1882, New York clamored for an appearance by the champion of laissez-faire capitalism, Herbert Spencer, who provided Charles Darwin with the phrase, "Survival of the fittest."

 
A Crisis of Conscience: Can a Caring Society Exist in a Market Economy?

27th Aug 07 - Mark Braund, The Guardian (UK)

In an impressive new book, The Social Conscience, Michel Glautier asks a simple question: can a caring society exist in a market economy?

 
Financialization in Globalized World

27th Aug 07 - Girish Mishra, Znet

It is really strange that, while there is a heated discussion on liberalization, neo-liberalism, privatization, etc., the most important dimension of globalization - financialization - is almost completely ignored. Why this is done is a mystery. The recent global crisis given rise by sub-prime mortgages in America has underlined that, without looking into the history of the rise and proliferation of financialization, it is difficult to understand the crisis and its implications.

 
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