The case against free trade : GATT, NAFTA, and the globalization of corporate power / Ralph Nader ... [et al.]

Introduction: Free trade and the decline of democracy / Ralph Nader -- Megatechnology, trade, and the new world order / Jerry Mander -- Hidden dangers of GATT and NAFTA / Lori Wallach -- Free trade is not free / Edmund G. Brown, Jr. -- Happily never NAFTA: There's no such thing as a free trade / Thea Lee -- Another NAFTA: What a good trade agreement should offer / Jorge G. Casteñeda and Carlos Heredia -- Blind faith and free trade / Margaret Atwood -- Free trade and the third world / Martin Khor -- Biodiversity and intellectual property rights / Vandana Shiva -- From adjustment to sustainable development: The obstacle of free trade / Herman E. Daly -- Dolphins and GATT / David Phillips -- Free trade: The great destroyer / David Morris -- A bad big idea / Wendell Berry.

"This book contains essays by leading citizen-oriented trade experts. They dissect the ideological roots of the free trade mantra, discuss the trade negotiations themselves and, most vividly and most importantly, detail the devastating effect that such trade governance has had - and the much more severe effect it will have if the Uruguay Round expansion of GATT and NAFTA are enacted - on real people and real communities around the world. All of humanity has a shared interest in opposing trade agreements that threaten to exacerbate rather than eliminate the great global threats to our human well-being - reckless exploitation of people and environments." -- From the back cover, quoted from Ralph Nader.