Global Economy

For more than a quarter century, IPS has been a leader in strengthening citizen responses to the global economy through research, writing, film, education, and coalition building. The project has produced dozens of books, articles, films, and educational materials.

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Op-Ed
We Need a New NAFTA
April 23 - The political debate over the trade deal is long overdue. By Sarah Anderson and Manuel Pérez Rocha, published in Athens Messenger and The Santa Rosa Press Gazette.

Commentary
Three Amigos Summit
April 15 - The NAFTA-expanding Security and Prosperity Partnership is too cozy with big business. By Sarah Anderson and Manuel Pérez Rocha, published in Common Dreams and Foreign Policy In Focus.

Op-Ed
Despite Failures, CEOs Cash In
April 14 - The problem of excessive pay is not being fixed, even for the top executives of companies in distress. By Sarah Anderson, published in The Dispatch, The Hartford Courant, The Plain Dealer.

Op-Ed
Busting Paranoid Right-Wing Fantasies of Dissolving the Mexico-U.S.-Canada Borders
April 9 - Expanding NAFTA is wrong, but not because of a mythical North American Union. By Sarah Anderson and Manuel Pérez Rocha, published in AlterNet.

Op-Ed
Trade Issues Are Not Just About NAFTA and the Rust Belt
March 3 - We need to shift from a "Wal-Mart economy" to one built on dignified jobs and healthy communities. By Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, published in The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC).

Op-Ed
Will Dems Follow Through on Promises to Fix NAFTA?
January 16 - Washington is long overdue for making sure U.S. trade policies put workers and the environment above corporate interests. By Sarah Anderson, published in AlterNet.

Op-Ed
Wal-Mart’s New Greenwashing Report
November 20 - The big-box company's new glossy environmental report can't hide that its fundamental problem is its business model. By Sarah Anderson, published in AlterNet.

Op-Ed
One Down: Obscenely Decadent War Profiteer Hauled Off in Handcuffs
October 26 - It looks like the party may be over for one corporate crook By Sarah Anderson, published in AlterNet.

Op-Ed
Trickle-Up Economics: New Report Reveals Staggering Global Wealth Concentration
October 8 - A new business study on global household wealth documents how the world's wealth is continuing to concentrate in the pockets of the awesomely affluent. By Sam Pizzigati, published in AlterNet.

Op-Ed
Are Corporate Titans Really Worth the Billions They Suck In?
September 12 - Is the labor of corporate CEOs really hundreds of times more valuable than the labor of other leaders? By Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati, published in AlterNet.

Report
Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Initiative: A Civil Society Critique
September 11 - Critiques of Wal-Mart's approach to sustainability, responding to a bold initiative to turn the world’s largest company green. By the Global Economy project.

Op-Ed
Are CEOs worth that much more?
September 5 - The huge pay gap only makes sense if CEOs add hundreds of times more value than other leaders in society. By Sarah Anderson, published in The Christian Science Monitor.

Report
Strategic Corporate Initiative
September 1 - Toward a global citizens' movement to bring corporations back under control By the Global Economy project.

Report
Executive Excess 2007
August 29 - IPS' 14th Annual CEO Compensation Survey on The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership. By the Global Economy project.

Op-Ed
Despite the Mortgage Crisis, Hedge Funders Are Still Raking It In
August 29 - The little guys may be hurting, but fear not for the titans of capital. By Sarah Anderson, published in AlterNet.

Magazine Article
Latin America Rising: U.S. Role Turned Upside Down
July 13 - Latin America is leading a historic break from the failed policies of the International Monetary Fund. By Sarah Anderson, published in Yes!.

Op-Ed
Top 10 Reasons Why Paul Wolfowitz Was a Great World Bank President
May 19 - Progressives should think twice before rejoicing over Wolfie's departure. By John Cavanagh, published in AlterNet.

Op-Ed
Foreign Investors Gone Wild
May 7 - Leaders of developing countries are often forced to work with institutions that promote and protect foreign investment -- with little regard for the costs to democracy and the environment. By Sarah Anderson, published in AlterNet and Znet.

Op-Ed
Missing Words For The New Trade Debate
May 4 - Democrats need to take an axe to the Bush Administration's trade policies. By Sarah Anderson, published in TomPaine.com.

Report
Selfish Interest
April 10 - How much Business Roundtable CEOs stand to lose from real reform of runaway executive pay. By the Global Economy project.

Report
Challenging Corporate Investor Rule
April 1 - How the World Bank's investment court, free trade agreements, and bilateral investment treaties have unleashed a new era of corporate power and what to do about it. By the Global Economy project.

Magazine Article
Ten Reasons Why the Wal-Mart Pundits Are Wrong
September 29 - Rebutting the conservative pundits and corporate flacks who have been singing Wal-Mart's virtues. By Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, published in The Nation.

Report
Executive Excess 2006
August 30 - Defense and oil executives cash in on conflict. By the Global Economy project.

Magazine Article
Alternatives to a Wall
July 13 - How NAFTA, CAFTA, and other corporate-friendly trade policies displace farmers and create mass migration, and how we can do better. By Sarah Anderson, Oscar Chacon, Amy Shannon, published in Yes!.

Report
Debt Boomerang
March 1 - How Americans would benefit from cancellation of impoverished country debts. By the Global Economy project.

Report
Executive Excess 2005
August 30 - Defense contractors get more bucks for the bang. By the Global Economy project.

Report
AFTER the FTAA: Lessons from Europe for the Americas
June 1 - With the talks for a free trade agreement for the entire Western Hemisphere on the brink of collapse, this report offers lessons from the EU for an alternative approach to integration. By the Global Economy project.

Report
Wal-Mart's Pay Gap
April 15 - Wal-Mart CEO compensation is 871 times as high as U.S. Wal-Mart worker pay; 50,000 times Chinese worker pay. By the Global Economy project.