Associative Economics: Responding to
the
Challenge of Elite Globalization
Table of Contents
Preface
7
Part
1
The
problematique of elite globalization
10
GATT/WTO:
A potent tool of globalization
12
Globalization:
threat to nature, society, and the Filipino
spirit
14
Globalization:
decay measured as progress
14
Contributory
factor to spread of globalization
15
Neo-liberal
economics: major structural cause of
poverty.
16
Spiritual
disease fueling globalization
17
Part
2
Associative
economics
18
The
myth of the “free market”
18
The
“free market” and the culture of competition
20
The
dynamics of associative economics
20
Types
of associative economics
21
Credit-based
associative economics
22
Marketing-based
associative economics
22
Production-based
associative economics
22
Consumer-based
associative economics
22
Integrative
systems of associative economics
23
Other
uses of associative economics
25
Interrelationships between sustainable integrated area development, community organizing,
cooperatives and associative economics
25
Prerequisites
for Associative Economics
27
Postscript
Especially for church-workers and community organizers 31
