What’s wrong with economic globalization?
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About the video: ‘What’s wrong with economic globalization?’
Jerry Mander talks about how the global economic system, established half a century ago at Bretton Woods, is fundamentally unsustainable. He argues that the poor are not benefiting from economic growth and that the wealth gap between rich and poorer is at its greatest in history. He examines how the model’s four major components are failing – abundant natural resources, new markets, cheap labour and compliancy. He then draws hope from the emergence of new alliances, new thinking and new economic models.
Total views: 5,222
Filmed: London, UK on 24 January 2005
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2005 Big Picture TV
About Jerry Mander
Jerry Mander is an American media activist and author.
He’s Director of the International Forum on Globalization , programme director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology and founder of the first non-profit advertising agency in the United States, Public Interest Communications.
His best known book is “Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television”(1977); he’s also an author and co-editor of ‘Alternatives to Globalization – A Better World is Possible.’
His latest book , “The Superferry Chronicles” (2008), is about efforts by Hawaiian activists to halt the operation of the Hawaii Superferry.
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