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- The New World Order: crisis in ethics and
rationality
- By Marcos Arruda, PACS-PRIES/CS, 8 November 1995. The
current backdrop to international relations is the
globalization of relations of production and social
relations under the planet-wide sway of the Market and
Capital. An examination of globalization, the major
challenges it raises and a criticism of the ethics that
pervades it. A proposal for another kind of globalization
centered on the human person and grounded in an ethics of
responsibility, collaboration and solidarity.
- Economic myths
- By David C. Korten, 13 March 1998. Extract from the
author's When Corporations Rule the
World. We should be more than skeptical of an
economic model that calls on us to give up all loyalty to
place and community. Millions of people around the world are
no longer buying this monumental fraud against humanity-and
their numbers are growing.
- The real score
- By Renato Constantino, Manila Bulletin 3 May
1998. It is now fairly easy to recognise globalisation for
what it really is. It is the rule of the Bretton Woods Twins
and the WTO which regulate and intervene in the affairs of
the South. It is the means by which the South will not be
allowed to threaten the gains of the North under colonialism
and neocolonialism.
- The Global Economy: Can it be Fixed?
- By Dr. David C. Korten, 31 October 1998. Presentation at
first major international meeting that brings together
supports and opponents of globalization. We face very basic
questions as to the goals and values we want our economies
to serve. The issues go far beyond tinkering with trade
rules at the margin.
- Whose world order? Conflicting
visions
- By Noam Chomsky, speech at the Opera House, Willington,
New Zealand, 10 November 1998. The reinstating of the
traditional order, tarnished by its association with
fascism, became a primary task of the early post-World War
II years. It was achieved to a considerable extent, often in
pretty ugly ways. The institutional framework that was
designed for world order 50 years ago.
- New economic values
- Mainichi Shimbun, 6 January 2000. Many of the
activities that characterize our modern industrial
civilization—mass production, mass consumption, and
mass disposal—are dependent on the exploitation of our
natural and energy resources. And these activities have been
legitimated by an ideology that looks upon economic growth
as inherently good.
- New Economy has no barriers
- By Matthias Yao, The Straits Times, 20 July
2000. [A capitalist view.] The New Economy is different
from the Old Economy in three ways. Knowledge, globalisation
and IT all now play a role in the creation of new value, The
effect on labour is that physical labour is no longer as
highly valued as before. Nowadays, machines are cheap, and
people are expensive.
- What's So New About the ‘New
Economy’?
- By Todd Scarth, 31 July 2000. According to legions of
cheerleaders disguised as e-journalists, some time after the
recession of the early 1990s someone sneaked in and replaced
our old economy with a shiny new one in which we all work
with our brains, not our hands; matter doesn't matter;
tangible assets are merely a burden; and the industrial age
has been replaced by the information age.
- Buddhist economics
- By James East, The Straits Times, 17 August
2000. Professor Apichai Phanthasen, of Bangkok's
Thammasat University, says Western economists have got it
all wrong and he is about to tell Thais as much in a radical
new book due to hit the shelves within weeks.