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Acknowledgments and Notes.. Introduction.. 1. Facing the rising tide.. 2. The failures of Bretton Woods.. Part One.. 3. The pressure to modernize and globalize.. 4. Global economy and the third world.. 5. Homogenization of education.. 6. Homogenization of global culture.. 7. Global trade and the environment.. 8. GATT, NAFTA, and the subversion of the democratic process.. 9. New technology and the end of jobs.. 10. Control of the world's food supply.. 11. Biocolonization: the patenting of life and the global market in body parts.. 12. Piracy by patent: the case of the neem tree.. 13. Globalization, development, and the spread of disease.. 14. The winners and the losers.. Part Two.. Panaceas That Failed.. 15. The mythic victory of market capitalism.. 16. Sustainable growth? No thank you.. 17. The need for new measurements of progress.. 18. Growth has reached its limit.. 19. Free trade: the great destroyer.. 20. Free trade: the perils of deregulation.. 21. Neo-development: "global ecological management".. 22. Development as colonialism.. 23.Seeds of exploitation: free trade zones in the global economy.. 24. Structural adjustment and the polarization of Mexican society.. 25. Structural adjustment programs: "success" for whom?.. Part Three.. Engines of Globalization.. 26. Mechanisms of corporate rule.. 27. The rules of corporate behavior.. 28. "Citizen" GE.. 29. Wal-Mart: global retailer.. 30. Technologies of globalization.. 31. Electronic money and the casino economy.. 32. Exercising power over corporation: through state charters.. Part Four.. Steps Toward Relocalization.. 33. Shifting direction: from global dependence to local interdependence.. 34. Conserving communities.. 35. Gandhi's Swadeshi: the economics of permanence.. 36. Community supported agriculture: farming with a face on it.. 37. Communities: building authority, responsibility, and capacity.. 38. Community money: the potential of local currency.. 39. "Sharing one skin": Okanagan community.. 40. Principles of bioregionalism.. 41. In favor of a new protectionism.. 42. Cross-border organizing.. 43. The last word: family, community, democracy.. References.. Authors' Bibliography.. Background Bibliography.. Organizations.. Index.. Editors' Biographoes

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