The Global Class War How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It Back

by Faux, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780471697619
• ISBN10: 0471697613
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-11
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Acclaim for The Global Class War "You will never think about 'free trade' the same way after reading Jeff Faux's superb book. As Faux makes clear, the globalization debate is really about whose interests are served by global elites, and how we need to go about reclaiming a democracy that serves ordinary people. This book should transform public discourse in America." -Robert Kuttner, founding coeditor of the American Prospect and a contributing columnist to BusinessWeek "Jeff Faux's astonishing story of how class works will scandalize the best names in Wall Street and Washington-especially the much admired Robert Rubin, who along with other elites colluded behind the backs of ordinary citizens in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The most cynical Americans will be shocked by the sordid details. This really is an important book." -William Greider, author of The Soul of Capitalism and Secrets of the Temple "Globalization is a cover for American imperialism, but the beneficiaries are not the American people at the expense of foreigners but corporate executives at the expense of working-class and poor people wherever they may be. Jeff Faux offers a comprehensive and devastating analysis." -Chalmers Johnson, author of The Sorrows of Empire

Author Biography

JEFF FAUX is the founder and former president of the Economic Policy Institute. He is a contributing editor to the American Prospect and a member of the editorial board of Dissent magazine. His articles and commentary have also appeared in the Washington Post, the Nation, the New York Times, USA Today, and Harper's.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. NAFTA: Class Reunion.

2. “Good Jobs” and Other Global Deceptions.

3. The Governing Class: America’s Worst-Kept Secret.

4. How Reagan and Thatcher Stole Globalization.

5. A Bipartisan Empire.

6. Alan, Larry, and Bob Save the Privileged.

7. NAFTA: Who Got What?

8. The Constitution According to Davos.

9. America Abandoned.

10. After the Fall.

11. Imagining North America.

12. Toward, and Beyond, a Continental Democracy.

Notes.

Index.