The colonial roots of globalization
The inefficient magic of the marketplace
Enter the free-market fundamentalists
The East Asian financial crisis
Learning the lessons of the Great Depression
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
GATT and the World Trade Organization
3 Debt and structural adjustment
The idea of a new international economic order
The origins of the debt crisis
Dictator kickbacks and ‘odious debt’
The limited scope of debt relief
This KFC world: corporations and culture
The problem with foreign direct investment
The explosion of foreign-exchange transactions
Why capital controls offer protection
6 Poverty, the environment and the market
The price of ignoring the environment
How boosting exports can backfire
The tyranny of tax havens and the super-rich
How globalization can derail development
7 Redesigning the global economy
The cost of growth in China and India
Abolish the Bretton Woods institutions
Support a tax on financial speculation