The Threat Of Global Capitalism
By Gregory McNamee
HOW IS IT that Mexico, once a breadbasket to the world,
now imports nearly a third of the grain it consumes? Why is it
that the neo-liberal development strategy for Third World nations
so warmly espoused by the International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank results almost always in failure? Why do the rich get
richer and the poor get poorer?
In his catastrophist look at the world economy,
Rolling Stone
political columnist William Greider proposes a few answers, none
of them comforting.
The new breed of robber-baron capitalism, he writes, cares nothing