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Title: The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization (No-Nonsense Guides) by Wayne Ellwood, John McMurtry ISBN: 1-85984-336-0 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: a pivotal volume in a great series
Comment: If you like leftist Canadian thinkers like John Raulston Saul or Linda McQuaig, you'll love this handy little book. It is less obtrusively philosophical than Saul, less earthily anecdotal than McQuaig, but squarely in their broad line of thought.
Albeit in a somewhat muted and oblique way, the volume makes it clear that in its root impulses, globalization is an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon: Nixon's abandonment of the gold standard in 1973, Thatcher's coming to power in the UK in 1978.
It is odd for a Canadian based series that the major Canadian player of this era - our dear, late PET, despised by Nixon, Regan, Thatcher -- isn't even in the index.
Useful facts: the WTO is founded in 1994; its major instrument becomes the 1997 MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investment). David Korten features heavily in the debate (his mid-90s WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD is not in the bibliography, even if a 1997 follow-up, THE POST-CORPORATE WORLD, is present). What is perhaps the book's most clutching assertion (one Korten had made more or less made in that earlier volume) is on page 73: "For every dollar that is needed to facilitate the trade in real goods, nine dollars is gambled in foreign exchange markets."
Rating: 5
Summary: Concise, entertaining guide to complex issues
Comment: This is a great intro to corporate globalism, and also a good refresher for the more educated folk. Ellwood wonderfully and consicesly gives a quick history of globalization (ie economic colonialism)describes the Bretton Woods Trio, explains and the problems with the rise of speculative investments, among others. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Title: The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade (No-Nonsense Guides) by David Ransom, Anita Roddick ISBN: 1859843344 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Utopistics: Or Historical Choices of the Twenty-First Century by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein ISBN: 1565844572 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration (No-Nonsense Guides) by Peter Stalker ISBN: 1859843549 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Boom and The Bubble: The US in the World Economy by Robert Brenner ISBN: 1859844839 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Incoherent Empire by Michael Mann ISBN: 1859845827 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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