Reply #6: "The Global Class War" by Jeff Faux

[sarahlee]

I have not read this yet, but am going to order it after watching the the author on CSpan2's Book TV this morning.

Review at The Economic Policy Institute:
http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/books_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 Business Week

Publisher:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471697613.html

We talk all the time about China taking jobs, the number of things we are importing from them, and how China holds so much of our debt. But did you realize that it is American investor money that is funding the making of all those gadgets we import? One more way that the rich get richer and the rest of us struggle along. Watching the Book TV program, I realize that Faux probably isn't going to tell me anything I don't already know. But my practice is to buy, read, share with friends and then donate to the local library to get books on their shelves that expose these ideas. So I am going to order and read it anyway.