Reading Trade Justice Group

Reading Group

The Reading group meets once a month to chat about a book or an article related to Trade or Trade Justice. We've found in the past that this can include rather a wide range of topics (as you can see from our list of past readings below!).

Previous RTJG reading group meetings

Title Author Publisher ISBN/Link Suggested By Meeting
The UK Interdependence report New Economics Foundation Marina May 06
Growth Isn't Working New Economics Foundation Marina April 06
Beyond Growth: Economics of Sustainable Development  
Herman E. Daly Beacon Press 0807047090 Marina Feb 06
Return to Scale New Economics Foundation Marina
Doing the Dirty work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour. Bridget Anderson Zed Books 1856497615 Marina Dec 05
Monbiot Articles George Monbiot May 05
Age of Consent George Monbiot Perennial 0007150431 Brenda May 2004
The Case Against the Global Economy Chap.4: Electronic Money and the Casino Economy
Jerry Mander Sierra Club Books 0871568659 Marina Apr 2004
The United States as a Heavily Indebted Prosperous Country (HIPC) Jubilee Research + NEF NEF link Marina Mar 2004
Deglobalization Walden Bello Zed Books 1 84277 305 4 Marina Feb 2004
The World We're in Will Hutton Brenda
Globalization and its Discontents Joseph E. Stiglitz Allen Lane The Penguin Press 0713996641 Marina
Media coverage of the developing world Glasgow Media Group Mark Dixon
A Peoples World John Madeley Zed Books 1842772236 Dan

Things we'd like to read (one day).

Title Author Publisher ISBN/Link Suggested By
A World Environment Organization: The Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem Newell The World Economy Vol 25, No 5. pp 659-671 ISBN/Link Marina
Views from the South: the effects of globalization and the WTO \ on third world countries
Ch: War against Nature and the People of the South
Vandana Shiva Food First Books Marina
There is an alternative: subsistence and local perspectives to globalization
Ch: Melanesia, the Banks and the BINGOs: Real alternatives are everywhere (except in the consultant's briefcase)
Ch: What really keeps our cities alive: money or subsistence?
Ch: The Clash of Knowledge Systems: Local Diversity in the Wild versus Global Homogeneity in the Marketplace
Faraclas, N.G Zed Books Marina
Amnesty International Lectures: Globalizing Rights Chapter 1 (Susan George) Matthew Gibney (Editor) Oxford Paperbacks 0192803050 Marina
There is an alternative: subsistence and worldwide resistance to corporate globalisation Benholdt-Thomsen, Veronika, Nicholas Faraclas and Claudia Von Werlhof Zed Books 1842770063 Marina
Return to Scale The New Economics Foundation The New Economics Foundation 1-899407-69-3 Marina
Parecon: Life After Capitalism Michael Albert Verso Books 185984698X Marina
The Case Against the Global Economy Chap.3: Technologies of Globalization
Chap.4: Electronic Money and the Casino Economy
Chap.17: The Environmental Cost of Economic Globalization
Jerry Mander Sierra Club Books 0871568659 Marina
The reality of trade related capacity building Reality of Aid Reality of Aid link to pdf file(1.5Mb) Marina
Profit over People Noam Chomsky Seven Stories Press Sean
World Hunger - 12 Myths Frances Moore Lappe et al. EARTHSCAN Sean
Hungry for Trade John Madeley Z Books Sean
Time to Replace Globalization Caroline Lucas and Colin Hines. The Green Party Sean
The Globalization of Poverty Michel Chossudovsky Zed Books Sean
Dark Victory Walden Bello Pluto Press