ABSTRACT

This text presents a devastating critique of the currently fashionable idea of globalisation. Using comprehensive and non-technical language this book looks at the world's cultural and value diversity, and questions whether it is possible to impose a global policy, given these differences. Topics covered include:
* theories of distribution and welfare
* what leads to a good economic outcome?
* Egalitarian theories of welfarism
* global neoliberalism and the free market culture.

chapter |26 pages

Global Economy, Global Justice

Theoretical Objections and Policy Alternatives to Neoliberalism

chapter I|8 pages

Normative matters

What makes for a good economic outcome?

chapter 1|18 pages

Neoclassical theory and welfarism

Introduction

chapter 2|38 pages

Welfarism and the market

Introduction

chapter 3|34 pages

Distributive justice and economic heterodoxy

Introduction

chapter 2|3 pages

Global neoliberalism

chapter 4|24 pages

Whose values, whose rules?

Relativism, universalism and justice

chapter 5|38 pages

Contesting competitiveness

chapter 6|27 pages

The trade debate