Deglobalization : ideas for a new world economy

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Title:

Author:

Bello, Walden F.

ISBN:

9781842773055

9781842773048

Personal Author:

Bello, Walden F.

Publication Information:

New York : Zed Books, 2002.

Physical Description:

x, 132 p. ; 20 cm.

Series:

Global issues

Global issues series (Zed Books)

Contents:

1. Introduction: the multiple crises of global capitalism -- 2. Marginalizing the South in the international system -- 3. Sidestepping democracy at the multilateral agencies -- 4. The crisis of legitimacy -- 5. The vicissitudes of reform, 1998-2002 -- 6. Poposals for global governance reform: a critical analysis -- 7. The alternative: deglobalization.

Subject Term:

International economic relations.

Globalization -- Economic aspects.

Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.

International agencies -- Developing countries.

Geographic Term:

Developing countries -- Foreign economic relations.

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Summary

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.