Walden Bello

Walden Bello is a Professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton, senior research fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University, and a former member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines.

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Why Free Trade is Bad for You (or Most of You at Any Rate)

Free trade is in real trouble today. But the promoters of free trade brought this on themselves. However, it is not because they have been tepid in their defense of free trade, as the description of this debate has it. They have been guilty of far greater sins.

March 15, 2019

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Crisis After Crisis: 10 Years After the Crash, There’s No ‘Reforming’ Global Capitalism

The way forward, it is increasingly clear, will be largely determined by the outcome of a political struggle between two post-globalization camps: fascists and democratic socialists.

September 21, 2018

It’s Not Only Necessary to Develop an Alternative to Globalization — It’s Entirely Possible

Free trade and the freedom of capital to move across borders have been the cutting edge of globalization. They’ve also led to the succession of crises that have led to the widespread questioning of capitalism as a way of organizing economic life — and of its paramount ideological expression, neoliberalism.

July 24, 2017

From the Battle for Seattle to the Financial Crisis

I think it is urgent that we overcome our fears of articulating grand narratives and lay out a vision that spells out the overcoming of the present world blighted by Capital through common struggle, with the end being the construction of societies that harness men and women’s deepest instinct— cooperation.

July 21, 2017

Europe’s Faustian Bargain with Big Finance

The problem with the Eurozone is that it is a monetary union that does not have the necessary requisites of a fiscal union and political union that would set up the rules and mechanisms to allow the central authorities to move capital from surplus to deficit regions.

June 6, 2017

How Liberal Democracy Promotes Inequality

…Rates of global inequality are simply unprecedented. And neoliberalism is to blame.

December 10, 2014

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