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Alternatives to economic globalization : a better world is possible

Title: Alternatives to economic globalization : a better world is possible / Alternatives Task Force of the International Forum on Globalization ; drafting committee, John Cavanagh [and others].
Publication: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler, [2002], ©2002.

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x, 268 pages; 23 cm

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Contents

1. A Critique of Corporate Globalization -- Key Ingredients of the Globalization Model -- Bureaucratic Expressions of Economic Globalization -- 2. Ten Principles for Sustainable Societies -- Ten Core Principles for Sustainable Societies -- Applying the Principles to Globalization -- 3. The Commons: What Should be Off-Limits to Globalization? -- Understanding the Commons -- Current Threats to the Commons -- The Tradition of the Commons -- Threats to the Modern Commons -- Proposals -- 4. The Case for Subsidiarity: BIAS Away from the Global Toward the Local -- Understanding Subsidiarity -- The Road to the Local -- Investment and Finance Issues -- Response to Critics of Subsidiarity -- 5. Corporate Structure and Power -- Corporate Structure Today -- Citizen Actions Against Corporate Power -- Ending Corporate-State Collusion -- Toward Alternative Business Structures -- 6. Alternative Operating Systems -- Energy Systems -- Transportation Systems --
Agriculture and Food Systems -- Manufacturing Systems -- Measurements of Economic Progress -- 7. From Bretton Woods to Alternatives -- A Review of the Current Situation -- Essential Rules of a Just and Sustainable International Trade and Finance System -- Restructuring the Institutional Framework -- Strengthening the Countervailing Powers of the U.N. System -- Creating New Global Institutions -- 8. Conclusions.

ISBN

1576752046 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002026007

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Columbia University Libraries