STWR - Share The World's Resources

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.

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.

US author Benjamin Barber explains how buying things ceased to be a chore and became a fun day out.

Barack Obama has openly declared himself as a pro-growth, pro-free trade guy who "loves" the open market. But before Obama can purge Washington of the scourge of Friedmanism, he has some ideological housecleaning of his own to do, says Naomi Klein.

Selfish capitalism sounds like a populist way of describing neo-liberalism. It’s characterised by privatisation and the redistribution of taxes from poor to rich and the conviction that the market can meet every conceivable human need, writes Mat Little.

Everything that can be done to bring the age of heroic consumption to its close should be done, says Jeremy Seabrook.

Social unrest and violence in poor countries is not simply a result of racism, but stems from the inequality and dislocation caused by globalization, writes Alex Perry.