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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,…
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“I hear people say we have to stop and debate globalization. You might as well debate whether autumn should follow summer.”
In 2005, Tony Blair told his party that a new, free-market, globalized form of capitalism was inevitable. Filipino theorist, activists and later politician Walden Bello begged to differ. He believed globalization was a political choice, and one that suited Western elites and their multinational corporations, at the expense of the mass of humanity.
In Deglobalization, Bello sets out to show how things could be different, imagining a more diverse international economy centred on the principle of being as…
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