The global class war
Subtitle: how America's bipartisan elite stole our future
By: Jeff Faux.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780471697619
Subjects: Canada; Social classes; Elite (Social sciences); Elite (Social sciences) -- United States; International economic relations; Globalization; North America -- Economic policy; United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Description: "In The Global Class War, Jeff Faux argues that the politics of the new world market is dominated by a virtual "Party of Davos," the globe-trotting network of corporate investors and CEOs, and the politicians and journalists who work on their behalf. Clinton and his treasury secretary, Robert Rubin, and Bush and his defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, may use different strategies, but they promote the same globalization agenda in which the benefits go to America's corporate investors - and the costs are paid by ordinary Americans in outsourced jobs, military casualties, and an unsustainable foreign debt." "Faux shows how NAFTA, the WTO, and similar "free-trade" agreements are really deals among the global elite to rip up the social contract that allows the benefits of capitalism to be broadly shared. As the first secretary-general of the WTO admitted, they make up "the constitution of a single global economy." Its Bill of Rights protects just one citizen - the large transnational corporation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: NAFTA : class reunion; title: "Good jobs" and other global deceptions; title: Governing class, America's worst kept secret; title: How Reagan and Thatcher stole globalization; title: A bipartisan empire; title: Alan, Larry, and Bob save Mexico - and the world; title: NAFTA equality : all workers lose; title: The constitution according to Davos; title: America's financial house of cards; title: Redefining our future : a new continental "we"?; title: Imagining North America; title: Towards a continental union.