“One of the five best books I've read. Marilyn Waring takes national finance on a global scale, lays it out in clean and lucid prose and wraps it all back up again, layering in the serious complexities of a feminist and ecofeminist analysis. Waring does not shirk the responsibility of supporting her arguments with strong logic, but meets it head one without convoluting her message.
Waring tells us that the United Nations System of Nation Accounting, imposed on the world by the IMF and WTO, is a flawed system indeed--always valuing environmental destruction more than fostering healthy human growth that works with, rather than against, nature.
The message doesn't seem new now, but she offers up one very particular location in transnational Capitalism where we can see the machinery of destruction in place (these systems of national accounting) and what it is that we might do to change that machinery in very real ways. ”
Addy Free wrote this review Monday, November 5, 2007.
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