Building a Win-Win World: Life Beyond Global Economic Warfare

Global trends and citizen initiatives promise hope to offset the negative effects worldwide from current market policies and economic models and to reward socially responsible business practices.

Berrett-Koehler Publishers:  San Francisco, CA, 1996.  Hardcover $29.95;   Paperback (1997) $19.95.

Building a Win-Win World demonstrates how the global economy is unsustainable because of its negative effects on employees, families, communities, and the ecosystem. Henderson shows that win-win strategies can become the norm at every level when people see the true current and future costs of short-sighted, narrow economic policies.

Using warfare as a metaphor for the dark side of today's world economic system, Henderson shows how both are destructive, inhumane, wasteful, irrational, inefficient, competitive, and crisis-driven. Building a Win-Win World examines how jobs, education, health care, human rights, democratic participation, socially responsible business, and environmental protection are all sacrificed to "global competitiveness."

Henderson shows many ways out of the dilemmas faced by all countries. New agreements are described to tame the global financial casino, regulate global corporations, and levy user fees for commercial use of global common resources -- oceans, the atmosphere, space, etc. -- and tax their abuse. She also describes a trend toward "grassroots globalism" -- citizens' movements that are addressing poverty, social inequalities, pollution, resource-depletion, violence, and wars. Such social innovations can raise the ethical floor under the global playing field so that the most ethical companies and countries can win.

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