Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 03:20:45 -0500
From: Nan Hildreth <Nan.Hildreth@Mcione.com>
Subject: Economic globalization - a hot topic
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Dear Martha, 

Thanks for the book list.  

Economic globalization is a hot topic.  Both Republican populist Pat
Buchanan and liberal Noam Chomsky say that we are becoming a Third World
country too!   I explained MAI to a couple of Libertarian activists here.
They were against it.  My Sierra Club has been doing action alerts on it.
Grassroots are very interested. 

We must teach a new vision besides the invisible hand.  Besides Keynes'
"fair is foul and foul is fair".   Some way to take care of ourselves
besides hoarding money and power.   Or we will consume the world in short
sighted self-interest. 

Can anyone put it in words for me?  


Nan Hildreth     Nan.Hildreth@MciOne.com

"Between 1972 and 1994, real wages of working Americans fell 19 percent,
the longest slide in three centuries." (Patrick Buchanan, The Great
Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed
to the Gods of the Global Economy, 1998, p 9) 

"... businesses, factories shutting down, workers being laid off, ... The
price of free trade is painful, real, lasting - where is the benefit ....?
As I began to write skeptically of free trade, I discovered that I was
trampling on holy ground.  For some conservatives, to question free-trade
dogma is heresy punishable by excommunication."  (ibid, page 18)