Presuppositions: Materialism and real wealth
What is the 'gospel of grab'? What purpose does it have and what needs does it satisfy?
How can we judge what wealth is? (John Ruskin)
The meaning of money
What is the proper scale of economic relationships?
Is there a limit to prosperity? Should there be?
The non-dollarized economy
What are just economic relationships?
How is it possible to go beyond the utilitarian, trivial, egotistical self?

The 'free market' and 'industrial capitalism'
What is 'economic man'?
What are the values of 'industrial capitalism'?
Is growth good?
How does industrial society produce a mechanical, sterile way of life?
What is a 'free market'?
The nature of capitalism
'Externalities'

Overview of globalization
Why is there growing corporate dominance?
Are things getting better or worse? Economic trends.
What are the benefits of globalization?

Global trade
How should we measure economic progress?
Do we have a free market? What are its limitations?
What should not be privatized?
Should the US attempt to dominate other economies?

C orporations
Should corporations have the same limits and responsibilities that human beings have?

Culture
What is the effect on local culture of globalization?
What are ‘Western’ values?
What are the ethical and spiritual questions globalization raises? 'Shall we dedicate our lives to individual acquisition? Shall we define ourselves in terms of narrow interest or identity groups?'
Alternative: How can you avoid being dominated by corporate culture?

Democracy
What is the relationship between the free market & democracy?
What is our complicity and responsibility for economic abuses?
What is the effect of globalization on the power--or freedom--of the individual?
Is globalization what we want, is it our 'choice'?
Who gains and who loses from globalization?
Is globalization what we want, is it our 'choice'?

Nature & farming
Is industrial farming linked to the depletion of democracy, religion, and nature?
technology & labor
What is fair pay?
To what extent is technology driving globalization?

Poor countries
Do the poor benefit from globalization?
What is our complicity and responsibility for economic abuses?
What is the effect of development aid on the poor?