The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization

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The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization was written by Wayne Ellwood, an editor for the New Internationalist, and published by Verso Books in 2001. Based in Toronto, he has also been the editor for the The A to Z of World Development. The book is approximately 136 pages in length, and is considered as a short but thorough guide to current matters regarding the topic of globalization. It covers topics such as globalization around the world, the Bretton Woods Institutions, developing countries' debt, poverty, the environment, and possible means of redesigning the global economy.

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Commercial culture and the Western consumer model have seeped into every corner of the globe while gaps in wealth, food security and social provision continue to grow. This "No Nonsense Guide to Globalisation" acknowledges the seductive and powerful promise of a 'borderless' world but probes deeper to find a money-mad juggernaut, spinning wildly out of control, threatening both cultural and biological diversity. This is a stinging critique of the orthodoxy of economic growth in a world of finite natural resources and a blueprint for a new economic architecture.