Ebook: NoNonsense Globalization: Buying and Selling the World

Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Globalization then and now; The colonial roots of globalization; Expanding international trade; The inefficient magic of the marketplace; Enter the free-market fundamentalists; The East Asian financial crisis; 2. The Bretton Woods trio; Keynesian economics; The International Monetary Fund (IMF); The World Bank; GATT and the World Trade Organization; 3. Debt and structural adjustment; The origins of the debt crisis; Dictator kickbacks and 'odious debt'; Structural adjustment; The limited scope of debt relief;Explains and examines globalization from all angles #x96; and explores strategies for redesigning the global economy in the common interest.