TY - BOOK AU - Bello, Walden F. TI - Deglobalization : : ideas for a new world economy / SN - 1842773054 AV - HF 1359 PY - 2002/// CY - London : PB - Zed Books, KW - International economic relations KW - Globalization -- Economic aspects KW - International agencies -- Developing countries N1 - Includes indexes N2 - How to manage the global economy - and, more fundamentally, whether humanity wishes it to go in an ever more market-oriented, transnational corporation-dominated, and capital-footloose direction - is the most important international question of our time. In this short and trenchant history of those bodies -- the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and Group of Seven -- which have promoted this economic globalization, Walden Bello: (1) Points to their manifest failings; (2) Examines the major new ideas put forward for reforming the management of the world economy; (3) Argues for a much more fundamental shift towards a decentralized, pluralistic system of global economic governance allowing countries to follow development strategies sensitive to their own values and particular mix of constraints and opportunities ER -