Greatest Story Oversold: Understanding Economic Globalization

A stunning exposé of how economic globalization has resulted in a network of injustice that is devastating people and countries around the world--and what Christians can do about it. »Free trade» was touted as a way to make economies more efficient and productive, and a strategy that would also benefit small businesses and workers. Instead, as author Stan Duncan says, »Corporate and political powers have contorted and stacked the decks of the financial machinery that runs the earth in such a way that rewards the rich and extracts payments from the poor.» The Greatest Story Oversold helps general readers understand the various global economic forces at work today. In non-technical language Duncan explains the »rules» and general practices of transnational corporations and global lenders like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He connects the dots between what happens »here» and what happens »there,» addressing the impact of specific issues like the global banking crisis, third world debt, NAFTA, and immigration. Moreover, Duncan relates the biblical calls for justice to the current situation in a compelling call to conscience. »The most engaging, cogent, illustrative, easy to understand yet very informed overview of the debt crisis I've read.» —Neal Watkins, Jubilee USA Network »This book makes highly illuminating connections between the faith of Christians and the world of economic realities such as the debt crisis and globalization.» —Thomas Massaro, S.J., Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Stan G. Duncan has degrees in economics and theology and has worked and published in both fields. In the 1980s he lived in Central America for two years doing research on economic development projects for the Hall Foundation. In this country he has pastored churches in three states and served on state or national boards for Bread for the World, Habitat for Humanity, and Jubilee USA, which works to cancel developing country debt. He also founded and for many years chaired the Economic Globalization Task Force of the United Church of Christ. For the last thirty years he has led delegations to developing countries with Equal Exchange and Witness for Peace. He has written a number of books and articles on religion and economic justice and has been an occasional commentator on NPR. He now lives in Quincy, Massachusetts, and is interim pastor of the United Parish of Fall River, Massachusetts. [Språk: Engelska] Häftad

Titel: Greatest Story Oversold: Understanding Economic Globalization
Förlag: Orbis