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Description
How to manage the global economy - and, more fundamentally, whether humanity wishes it to go in an ever more market-oriented, transnational corporation-dominated, and capital-footloose direction - is the most important international question of our time. In this short and trenchant history of those bodies -- the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and Group of Seven -- which have promoted this economic globalization, Walden Bello:
- Points to their manifest failings;
- Examines the major new ideas put forward for reforming the management of the world economy;
- Argues for a much more fundamental shift towards a decentralized, pluralistic system of global economic governance allowing countries to follow development strategies sensitive to their own values and particular mix of constraints and opportunities.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Multiple Crises of Global Capitalism
2. Marginalizing the South in the International System
3. Sidestepping Democracy at the Multilateral Agencies
5. The Vicissitudes of Reform, 1998-2002
6. Proposals for Reform of Global Governance: A Critical Analysis
7. The Alternative: Deglobalization
Product details
Published | 29 Feb 2008 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 2nd |
Extent | 167 |
ISBN | 9781848131262 |
Imprint | Zed Books |
Series | Global Issues |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Deglobalization is a superb dissection of contemporary capitalism's multiple crises, a powerful indictment of the US's brutal re-subordination of the global South in the interest of its MNCs and banks, an unanswerable demonstration of the unreformability of the IMF and its sister institutions, and a stirring call to arms for the movement for economic justice by one of its major theorists and organizers.
Robert Brenner
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Among the expanding constellation of activists, academicians, and thinkers who believe that mainstream economics... does not have an answer to people's needs, Walden Bello is a prominent star
Bangkok Post
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This short concise volume is a guidebook no activist should travel without.
Briarpatch Magazine, May 2003
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The most respected anti-globalization thinker in Asia
Le Soir (Belgium)
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Walden Bello is the world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary. With plainspoken history and compelling evidence, he ruthlessly exposes the opportunism, plunder, and backroom bullying that passes for global capitalism. But this is more than a critique: Bellos expert diagnosis is that the patient is sicker than we think, and the time to act is now.
Naomi Klein, author, No Logo
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Clear analysis and impressive scholarship have made Bello one of Asia's key progressive thinkers. Insistence on people-centered development grounded in ecological sustainability sets him apart from the elite consensus on Asia
New Internationalist

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