The myth of free trade

| February 6, 2008

NWOU recently came across a nice article by Chalmers Johnson reviewing the work of Ha-Joon Chang, an economist at Cambridge University who specializes in Third World studies. Ha-Joon Chang is a Korean economist and author of Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002). Chang drew his theoretical orientation from German economist Friedrich […]

First understand Wal-Mart

| January 7, 2008

A good place to begin your anti-globalist education is by understanding Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is too big to criticize and too big for social scientists to study. By “big” we mean powerful and ruthless. How big? See The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know by Charles Fishman, http://www.thelastoutpost.com/site/1481/default.aspx A good way to enter New World Order studies is […]