Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith have put together an impressive collection of essays looking at all aspects of the global economy, not just the narrow economic aspects. The collection of essays was put together before the global meltdown and partial recovery in the spring, summer and winter of 1998, an economy that was still extremely jittery by the end of 1998, with stock markets showing violent swings both up and down within a single day. This instability was merely a foretaste of what the authors anticipate from our interlocking and greed driven economies.
Globalisation takes many forms.
The globalisation of culture and of education to create a mass market for the purveyors of junk food and junk ideas. The destruction of the environment on a global scale. Distortion in the world's food supply as Third World countries move to supply the West with cash crops to pay ever growing debts, the West dumps its heavily subsidised food surpluses on the Third World, small family farmers in the West and subsistence farmers in the Third World are squeezed out. The patenting of life and the control of agricultural resources by a handful of global corporations is destroying global biodiversity. As James Goldsmith points out, the transfer of jobs to the Third World has huge social costs in the West as we experience social disintegration on a global scale.