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'For anyone who wants a lucid, factual, reliable guide to some of the most important issues of our time, I strongly recommend you check out the No-Nonsense Guides.' Howard Zinn, historian, playwright and social activist 'The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization provides a lucid explanatory map of our current condition. This is a concise and valuable overview of the world system, what has gone wrong with it - and the way ahead.' Professor John McMurtry, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada 'A splendid series of pocketable guides to issue politics... rigorously clear.' The Guardian, London
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Globalization is now more than a buzzword, it is all around us. From the richest country to the poorest country, every aspect of life is affected by global economics and communications. Globalization can be a force for equality - more people have access to information that can spread awareness and change lives. But it can also be seen as the embodiment of inequality - the rich world's rabid consumption of resources is at the expense of poor countries, forced to cut costs and corners to compete. This guide condenses this complex world into a clear, concise commentary. It examines the debt trap; the acceleration of neoliberalism and the 'free trade' model; competition for energy resources; the links between the 'war on terror', the arms trade and privatization. And the new final chapter examines civil society alternatives to corporate globalization, including the World Social Forum, Make Poverty History campaign and trade justice initiatives.
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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was aware of some of the issues surrounding the globalization debate before reading this book, which clarified the key issues surrounding economic globalization in their historical and contemporary contexts. The book explains a number of current issues such as the Tobin tax. The coverage of various arguments and debates is not perhaps always even-handed, but its links to New Internationalist demand it argues convincingly for action which protects the poor and the environment.
11 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I tried to read No Logo but the long pages of facts made that book difficult to finish. The No Nonsense guide to Globalization is however short, to the point and gives a good account of the issues.
I'm planning to send a copy to all my friends - this shocking message needs to be understood by more people.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Concise, entertaining guide to complex issues
23 Jun 2001
Format:Paperback
This is a great intro to corporate globalism, and also a good refresher for the more educated folk. Ellwood wonderfully and consicesly gives a quick history of globalization (ie economic colonialism)describes the Bretton Woods Trio, explains and the problems with the rise of speculative investments, among others. I would recommend this book to anyone.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
a pivotal volume in a great series
18 Oct 2003
Format:Paperback
If you like leftist Canadian thinkers like John Raulston Saul or Linda McQuaig, you'll love this handy little book. It is less obtrusively philosophical than Saul, less earthily anecdotal than McQuaig, but squarely in their broad line of thought.
Albeit in a somewhat muted and oblique way, the volume makes it clear that in its root impulses, globalization is an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon: Nixon's abandonment of the gold standard in 1973, Thatcher's coming to power in the UK in 1978.
It is odd for a Canadian based series that the major Canadian player of this era - our dear, late PET, despised by Nixon, Regan, Thatcher -- isn't even in the index.
Useful facts: the WTO is founded in 1994; its major instrument becomes the 1997 MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investment). David Korten features heavily in the debate (his mid-90s WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD is not in the bibliography, even if a 1997 follow-up, THE POST-CORPORATE WORLD, is present). What is perhaps the book's most clutching assertion (one Korten had made more or less made in that earlier volume) is on page 73: "For every dollar that is needed to facilitate the trade in real goods, nine dollars is gambled in foreign exchange markets."
1 of 12 people found the following review helpful
over all pretty ok
9 Nov 2006
Format:Paperback
Nothing to brag about, but no complaints either. Shipping was good, price good, service ok.
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