March 7, 2000 While both parties and all major political candidates are supporting globalization, events in Seattle and Davos, Switzerland, this year should provide a warning that all is not well in the global economy. Those in business who have profited from globalization ignore at their peril those who have not. From the perspectives… Read More »
SCORE ONE FOR THE LITTLE GUYS
November 26, 1999 For decades, world leaders in business and government have been constructing a new global economy behind closed doors and with little accountability to the public. However, a series of events–the defeat of fast-track trade negotiating authority, the efforts to cancel Third World debt and the current controversy over environmental and labor… Read More »
YOU MEAN THERE’S AN ALTERNATIVE?
November 7, 1999 When world leaders meet in Seattle after Thanksgiving for the “pre-millennial” session of the World Trade Organization, many will sincerely believe that there is no alternative to the present direction of globalization. But all over the world, activists and scholars associated with environmental, religious, labor, and other social movements have in… Read More »
REVIEW OF PANIC RULES
August 5, 1999 A funny thing happened on the way to the New Millenium: the Old Millenium crashed. According to economist Paul Krugman, “Never in the course of economic events — not even in the early years of the Depression — has so large a part of the world economy experienced so devastating a… Read More »
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