Attac Germany, part of the global justice network, makes available alternatives to “trickle-down or corporate beneficent” economics (cf. John Kenneth Galbraith’s “horse-sparrow theory” where the horse must be fed so the sparrow can live). Maybe unregulated laissez faire capitalism ends up as generalized insecurity, military Keynesianism or “minority consumption” (cf. Robert Kurz).
The state has a social nature and isn’t only a power and security state. If you care about something, don’t leave it to financial speculators!
Knowledge maximization could replace profit maximization, market fundamentalism or economism. Long-term necessities could supplant short-term “practical necessities”.
The mighty dollar is no longer so mighty! Globalization or Americanization is challenged and debunked by the Global South and the international civil society.
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“Revitalization of the UN” – Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann
Last Address as President of the 63rd UN General Assembly, September 14, 2009
http://www.un.org/ga/president/63/statements/finalsession140909.shtml RELATED LINKS
“The Virtues of Deglobalization”: The 11 Pillars of the Alternative
Walden Bello
http://focusweb.org/the-virtues-of-deglobalization.html?Itemid=5 “Present and Future Impact of the Crisis”
Francois Houtart
http://www.forumdesalternatives.org/EN/readarticle.php?article_id=6336 “How Neoliberal Ideology Destabilized the World Balance”: Krugman and Galbraith
Kai Ruhsert
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2009/10/394644.shtml “Humor is healthful” Saturday Night Live on the Obama Presidency, October 2009
http://www.hulu.com/watch/99945/saturday-night-live-obama-address