A New Democracy: Alternatives to a Bankrupt World Order (Global Issues) - Hardcover
At the beginning of the 21st century, the global economic system, Harry Shutt argues, is based on inherently anarchic and unstable markets and is dominated by unaccountable corporate interests. It is unable to assure a minimum degree of material security for all but a small minority of the world's population. Imperialist political control and the capitalist economic system are converging on a global scale; Shutt shows how political movements need to construct new alternative paths of global integration, methods of economic governance that are more responsive to the public's needs and more equitable, and democratic reform designed to make governments more representative.
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Harry Shutt is an independent economic consultant. His most recent book is the best-seller The Trouble with Capitalism: An Inquiry into the Causes of Global Economic Failure.
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Following the path set by his previous work, The Trouble with Capitalism: An Enquiry into the Causes of Global Economic Failure (LJ 6/15/98), British economist Schutt decries what he describes as the systemic collapse of the global financial system. Within this slim text he discusses a broad range of topics, including social responsibility, public accountability, environmental care, high unemployment, rising poverty, the power elite, national sovereignty, and the economic and social breakdown of nations. Seeking a link between politics and economics, Shutt proposes an alternative system in which the United Nations becomes the supranational entity that regulates world financial activity and governments own the means of production, regulate markets, restrict commerce, and redistribute wealth and income as part of a mandatory global welfare system. Unfortunately, the author lacks a means of quantifying his assertions and relies on discarded collectivist rhetoric. Readers will find Seymour Melman's After Capitalism (LJ 9/15/01) or Liah Greenfeld's The Spirit of Capitalism (LJ 10/15/01) more useful. Not recommended. Norm Hutcherson, California State Univ., Bakersfield
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- PublisherZed Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1856499731
- ISBN 13 9781856499736
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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