STWR - Share The World's Resources

The shift from consumptive, life-threatening growth to improved wellbeing and real quality of life is the key to an environmentally and socially sustainable future - and one which politicians must acknowledge, writes Jonathon Porritt.

The era of the 'Washington consensus' is over, replaced by a new model of letting countries develop in their own way, writes Dani Rodrik.

The lesson from the food and financial crises is clear - that neo-liberal market fundamentalism was always a political doctrine serving certain interests, never supported by economic theory, writes Joseph Stiglitz.

Recent economic woes are raising new doubts about the benefits of globalization, reports Mark Trumbull.

Disaster capitalism is now riding on the back of the serial crises in food and energy - and Iraq isn't the only country in the midst of an oil-related stickup, writes Naomi Klein.

Greater government intervention is needed to moderate the severe economic swings and inequalities that seem to be an unavoidable byproduct of globalization, according to a United Nations report released yesterday.

The spirit of the 1968 protests has been subsumed by the supposed inevitability of capitalism - and now demands the mobilization of those excluded in the slums of the developing world, writes Slavoj Žižek.