L'autore:
Jerry Mander
Jerry Mander is president of the International Forum on Globalization, programme director of the Foundation for Deep Ecology and a senior fellow at the Public Media Center, a non-profit social and environmental advertising company. His books include Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and In the Absence of the Sacred.
Edward Goldsmith
Edward Goldsmith is the founder of The Ecologist, Europe’s leading environmental magazine, and author of numerous books, including, A Blueprint for Survival, A Stable Society and The Way: An Ecological Worldview. He is also a member of the International Forum on Globalization.
Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:
tical debate is emerging over the many unexpected and profound consequences of the rush toward the global economy and its effects on jobs, human rights, cultural diversity, democracy, and the natural world. The world's political and corporate leaders are restructuring the planet's economic and political arrangements in ways that directly affect humans and the environment more than anything since the Industrial Revolution. New, giant globalizing institutions such as the World Trade Organization, GATT, and the World Bank, created with scant public debate or scrutiny, have moved real power away from citizen democracies and nation states to global corporate bureaucracies, with grave results.
The Case Against the Global Economy is the first comprehensive point-by-point analysis of the new global economy, its premise and its full social and ecological implications. The work gathers 43 leading economic, agricultural, cultural, and environmental experts who charge that free trade an|"A provocative and welcome counter-argument to the conventional wisdom that economic gobalization is in the best interests of mankind."--Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley
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