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| List of Boxes | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| A Living Document | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note on Sources | |
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| Introduction: Turning Point | |
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| Cancun: The Outbreak of Democracy | |
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| Miami: Regime Change in Latin America | |
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| Iraq: The Failure of Empire | |
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| New Awakenings | |
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| A System in Crisis | |
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| Conflicting Worldviews | |
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| Different Worlds | |
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| Economic Democracy | |
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| Momentum for Change | |
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| Design for Corporate Rule | |
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| Key Ingredients of the Globalization Model | |
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| Hypergrowth | |
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| Privatization and Commodification | |
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| Economic and Cultural Homogenization | |
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| Export-Oriented Trade and Investment | |
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| Beneficiaries of Economic Globalization | |
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| The Role of the Media | |
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| The Unholy Trinity: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organizatio | |
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| The World Bank | |
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| The International Monetary Fund | |
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| The World Trade Organization | |
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| Proposals | |
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| Alternatives in Action | |
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| Ten Principles for Sustainable Societies | |
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| Core Principles | |
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| New Democracy | |
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| Subsidiarity | |
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| Ecological Sustainability | |
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| Common Heritage | |
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| Diversity | |
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| Human Rights | |
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| Jobs, Livelihood, Employment | |
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| Food Security and Safety | |
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| Equity | |
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| The Precautionary Principle | |
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| Applying the Principles to Globalization | |
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| Reclaiming the Commons: What Should Be Off-Limits to Globalization? | |
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| Understanding the Commons | |
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| Current Threats to the Commons | |
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| The Tradition of the Commons | |
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| Threats to the Modern Commons | |
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| Three Proposals to Reempower the Commons | |
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| Subsidiarity: Recalling Power from the Global | |
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| Understanding Subsidiarity | |
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| The Road to the Local | |
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| Investment and Finance Issues | |
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| Response to Critics of Subsidiarity | |
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| Alternative Operating Systems | |
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| Energy Systems | |
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| Transportation Systems | |
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| Manufacturing Systems | |
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| Standards of Measurement | |
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| Alternative Operating Systems (2) | |
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| Agriculture and Food Systems | |
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| Global Media | |
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| People's Alternative Initiatives | |
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| Global Governance | |
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| Corporate Structure and Power | |
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| Corporate Structure Today | |
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| Citizen Actions Against Corporate Power | |
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| Ending Corporate--State Collusion | |
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| Toward Alternative Business Structures | |
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| New International Structures | |
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| A Review of the Current Situation | |
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| Essential Rules of a Just and Sustainable International Trade and Finance System | |
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| Restructuring the Institutional Framework | |
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| Strengthening the Countervailing Powers of the U.N. System | |
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| Creating New Global Institutions | |
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| Global to Local: What You Can Do | |
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| Steps You Can Take as a Consumer | |
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| Steps You Can Take as a Worker | |
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| Steps You Can Take as a Depositor and Investor | |
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| Steps You Can Take as a Citizen | |
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| Resources: Groups Working Toward Alternatives to Economic Globalization | |
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| Resources: Useful Tools and Indicators | |
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| Sources | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| About the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) | |