Economic Aspects of Peace & Social Justice Webliography
50 Years is Enough – U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
The U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice is a coalition of grassroots organizations that works in partnership with other organizations around the world to reform the World Bank and the IMF. Fact sheets address such issues as debt cancellation, free trade, privatization and the G8. Issue pages also include updates and links to relevant articles in the Network’s Economic Justice News.
Alliance for Economic Justice
This site posts relevant articles from various news sources on job creation, healthcare, and fair trade. It features Dinan’s Corner, a collection of trade issue analysis papers by Donald R. Dinan, lawyer and adjunct professor of International Trade Law at Georgetown University Law Center.
Center for Economic & Social Justice
A series of articles explains and promotes the “Just Third Way,” “capital homesteading,” and “justice-based management,” the three main strategies the Center advocates to achieve its goals. Also included are a glossary of terms and links to two e-books by Lewis Kelso, the lawyer-economist whose economic theories strongly influenced CESJ’s strategies.
Dollars and Sense
Selected articles from September 1996 to the present from “the magazine of economic justice.”
Economic Justice in the United States – American Friends Service Committee
This portion of the AFSC website includes a Learn about Economic Justice page that covers health care, housing, hunger and poverty, and jobs and wages. Along with a news archive on these topics, there is also an issues index linking to articles on other aspects of economic justice such as community development, sustainable development and welfare.
Economics and Economic Justice – from The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This article provides an overview of several economic concepts that are applicable to social and economic justice issues, including the theory of inequality and poverty measurement, welfare economics, the theory of social choice, the theory of bargaining and of cooperative games, and the theory of fair allocation.
The Global Economy – Global Exchange
“Global Economy 101” contains various articles that cover topics such as corporate globalization, economic democracy, and corporate responsibility. Pages on the WTO, CAFTA, and the World Bank and the IMF contain fact sheets, reports, analysis, and news updates.
Jobs with Justice
In addition to news about the ongoing campaign for workers’ rights, this site contains information on organizing & collective bargaining rights, immigrant rights, student labor action and workers’ rights boards.
Jubileee USA Network
This network of labor organizations, churches, AIDS activists and trade campaigners promotes debt cancellation for the world’s impoverished nations. The site has a resources page with links to reports, fact sheets, country debt sheets and education and action packets. There’s also a good deal of information accessible from the Learn More page, including A Beginner’s Guide to Debt, a glossary of debt terms.
