Deglobalization ideas for a new world economy / Walden Bello

Public ISBD Titre : Deglobalization ideas for a new world economy Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Walden Bello, Auteur Editeur : London : ZED Books Année de publication : 2002 Collection : Global issues in a changing world Importance : 131 p Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Banque mondiale Mondialisation Tags : Banque mondiale  FMI  OMC  G7  Economie mondiale  Mondialisation Index. décimale : 03 Commerce-Mondialisation Résumé : This is a short and trenchant history of the organizations--the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and Group of Seven--that have promoted economic globalization and which are now trying to manage the unmanageable. Walden Bello points to their manifest failings, seen in recurrent financial crises, the ever widening gulf between developing and industrialized countries, the persistence of gross inequalities, and mass poverty. He examines new ideas for reforming world economic management, and argues that a much more fundamental and radical shift of direction is required. Deglobalization ideas for a new world economy [texte imprimé] / Walden Bello, Auteur . - London : ZED Books, 2002 . - 131 p. - (Global issues in a changing world) . Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Banque mondiale Mondialisation Tags : Banque mondiale  FMI  OMC  G7  Economie mondiale  Mondialisation Index. décimale : 03 Commerce-Mondialisation Résumé : This is a short and trenchant history of the organizations--the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and Group of Seven--that have promoted economic globalization and which are now trying to manage the unmanageable. Walden Bello points to their manifest failings, seen in recurrent financial crises, the ever widening gulf between developing and industrialized countries, the persistence of gross inequalities, and mass poverty. He examines new ideas for reforming world economic management, and argues that a much more fundamental and radical shift of direction is required.

Protect or Plunder ? / Vandana Shiva

Public ISBD Titre : Protect or Plunder ? : Understanding intellectual property rights Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Vandana Shiva, Auteur Editeur : London : ZED Books Année de publication : 2001 Collection : Global issues in a changing world Importance : 146 p Note générale : 03.01 SHI Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Droit Tags : OMC  Médicaments  Propriété intellectuelle  TRIPs Index. décimale : 03.01 COMMERCE / MONDIALISATION Généralités Résumé : Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - they sound technical, even boring. Yet, as Vandana Shiva shows, what kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations is a vital issue for our times. In this readable and compelling introduction to an issue that lies at the heart of the socalled knowledge economy, Vandana Shiva makes clear how this Western-inspired and unprecedented widening of the concept does not in fact stimulate human creativity and the generation of knowledge Protect or Plunder ? : Understanding intellectual property rights [texte imprimé] / Vandana Shiva, Auteur . - London : ZED Books, 2001 . - 146 p. - (Global issues in a changing world) . 03.01 SHI Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Droit Tags : OMC  Médicaments  Propriété intellectuelle  TRIPs Index. décimale : 03.01 COMMERCE / MONDIALISATION Généralités Résumé : Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - they sound technical, even boring. Yet, as Vandana Shiva shows, what kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations is a vital issue for our times. In this readable and compelling introduction to an issue that lies at the heart of the socalled knowledge economy, Vandana Shiva makes clear how this Western-inspired and unprecedented widening of the concept does not in fact stimulate human creativity and the generation of knowledge

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