About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 120. Chapters: Anti-globalization movement, No Logo, Ecofeminism, Tobin tax, Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, World Social Forum, Uneconomic growth, Avatar, Eco-socialism, Tax haven, The Political Cesspool, 31st G8 summit, Black market, Antisemitism in the anti-globalization movement, Green politics, Zionist Freedom Alliance, Anti-imperialism, Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser, Fences and Windows, Anti-consumerism, China Compulsory Certificate, Alter-globalization, Globalization and Its Discontents, Mark Weisbrot, Precarity, Food sovereignty, McJob, Global citizens movement, Beehive Design Collective, Halifax Initiative, Precarious work, Horizontalidad, Contingent workforce, Global Justice Movement, Over-consumption, Criticism of debt, Think Globally, Act Locally, Root Force, Ugland House, EuroMayDay, When Corporations Rule the World, Robert Henderson, Porto Alegre Manifesto, Democratic globalization, Rabble.ca, The No WTO Combo, The Politics of Bones, Straight Goods, CorpWatch, Counter-hegemonic globalization, Movement for Social Change, Maine Video Activists Network, Forum des peuples, Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital, Merchandization. Excerpt: Connection Timeout A Tobin tax, suggested by Nobel Laureate economist James Tobin, was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another. The tax is intended to put a penalty on short-term financial round-trip excursions into another currency. Tobin suggested his currency transaction tax in 1972 in his Janeway Lectures at Princeton, shortly after the Bretton Woods system of monetary management ended in 1971. Prior to 1971, one of the chief features of the Bretton Woods system was an obligation for each country to adopt a monetary policy that maintained the exchange rate of its currenc...
