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Index
Cover
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
4. The corporate century
Corporate merger mania
Pushing privatization
The problem with foreign direct investment
Impacts of NAFTA
The dangers of overproduction
5. Global casino
Financial crises proliferate
The Asian meltdown
Why capital controls offer protection
Latin American responses
6. Poverty, the environment and the market
The price of ignoring the environment
How boosting exports can backfire
Spiralling inequality
The tyranny of tax havens and the super-rich
How globalization can derail development
7. Redesigning the global economy
Another world is possible
Abolish the Bretton Woods institutions
Support a tax on financial speculation
Control capital for the public good
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