ABSTRACT
Now I want to return to global economic issues. This is partly to anticipate an obvious criticism on the grounds that my view of the world is implicitly too Europe-centered or America-centered. The accusation could be made that I am taking a ‘dog in the manger’ position for the rich countries. It might be argued that my strategy – of slowing down the globalization process and cutting back sharply on consumption of manufactured goods by taxing resources and encouraging recovery, re-use, remanufacturing and recycling – would ‘condemn several billion Asians and Africans to perpetual poverty’. The quotes are from a letter I received from one of the readers of an earlier draft of this manuscript, who shall remain nameless. So let’s get these issues out into the open.
