David Morris - ‘Free Trade’:The Great Destroyer

Economists like to talk about externalities.

The costs of job dislocalisation, rising family violence, community breakdown, environmental damage, and cultural collapse are all considered ‘external’.

 

External to what, one might ask ?

 

This weeks Green Thought is taken from ‘Free Trade’:The Great Destroyer by Morris D.(1996), in Mander J. & Goldsmith E. (eds.)(1996) ‘The Case against the Global Economy and for a turn towards the Local’.

 

Article:http://www.converge.org.nz/pirm/free.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Mander

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Goldsmith