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Title: The Wto: Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization by Lori Wallach, Michelle Sforza, Ralph Nader, Michele Sforza ISBN: 1-58322-035-6 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: great for beginers sorta preaching to the choir for others
Comment: this is just a begining to the atrocity of the WTO. it will give you great insight to its real workings kept secret by the corporate owned media. sorta old stuff for people who already know about the WTO
Rating: 4
Summary: Not as strong as the complete book, but a good intro
Comment: The complete textbook, "Whose Trade Organization?" is a remarkably potent, relentlessly-documented beast of a book, which I wish more people had the time and inclination to read. This smaller edition lacks the potency and punch of the parent text, but manages to still encompass most of the critical data.
If a book is going to be abridged like this one, chances are that it's intended for mildly curious readers who want to know, "just what are they protesting about the WTO anyway?", rather than for the scholar or intellectual activist. But I'm afraid that this book forgets its likeliest audience. For such an audience, the more effective approach would have been to describe the most extreme and outrageous WTO scenarios, leaving the reader outraged at the moral and political injustices! Instead, this book gives brief desriptions of these, and then mixes in more technical (yet abridged) histories and terms and procedural issues with the WTO. In short, it left in too much of the nuts-and-bolts when it should have displayed more of the outrageous effects on human rights, environment, national sovereinty, labor, toxins, etc.
A second shortcoming is that the book assumes its reader is sympathetic to such concerns (environment, labor, culture, etc.). What we need is a book directed at Conservatives, explaining to them why the WTO is an insult to conservative values by supplanting the laws created by a sovereign nation, overwhelming our Constitution in favor of corporate-managed meddling, and actually defying the concept of "free trade" with shockingly-entrenched meddling from an organization that does not have the U.S.'s sovereign interests in mind.
Rating: 5
Summary: People's Primer on Main Obstacle to Self-Governance
Comment:
Lori Wallach has got to be on her way to a Nobel Prize. She has hit an exposed nerve of the corporate system, and illuminated it in a manner that moves tens of thousands. This book, a very short version of a much longer study, is very cogent and well-documented. The bottom line is clear: the WTO operates in secrecy, for the convenience of corporations, and is systematically undermining and overturning higher standards of protections and sanctions related to the protection of children, public safety, and the environment.
It merits comment that Wallach (and her lesser known co-author, Michelle Sforza) would never have reached as many people with their thinking in the absence of the Open Media Pamphlet Series. This series is addictive, brilliant, and consistently cuts to the heart of major issues.
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Title: Global Capitalism by Will Hutton, Anthony Giddens ISBN: 1565846745 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Case Against the Global Economy: And for a Turn Toward the Local by Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith ISBN: 0871568659 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Pub. Date: 23 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Whose Trade Organization?: Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy by Lori Wallach, Michelle Sforza, Ralph Nader ISBN: 1582310017 Publisher: Public Citizen Inc Pub. Date: 07 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Nature and Logic of Capitalism by Robert L. Heilbroner, James K. Galbraith ISBN: 039395529X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz ISBN: 0393324397 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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