"You will never think about 'free trade' the same way after reading Jeff Faux's superb book. This book should transform public discourse in America." Robert Kuttner, author of Everything for Sale

America is in serious economic trouble — but don't expect our leaders to do anything about it. Thanks to globalization, America's rich and powerful now have more in common with the governing classes of other nations than they have with ordinary Americans. In Global Class War, economic commentator Jeff Faux explains the way both Democratic and Republican leaders have used so-called trade agreements to write a new global constitution that protects only one kind of citizen — the corporate investor. With the U.S. economy about to drown in a sea of rising red ink and American corporations relentlessly outsourcing our jobs and technology, a deep economic crisis is in the cards. Jeff Faux concludes this blistering expose with a convincing vision of a prosperous and democratic North America that could benefit every American, not just those at the top.

"Why, in 1993, did the newly elected Bill Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement, a pro-business measure invented by his political adversaries and opposed by his allies in labor and the environment? The answer, according to Faux, is that Clinton was less devoted to his base than to his fellow elites, rewarding their donations to the Democratic Party with access to Mexico's cheap labor and lax environmental standards. With a fluid grasp of both history and economics, Faux, founder of the Economic Policy Institute, critiques both Democrats and Republicans for protecting transnational corporations 'while abandoning the rest of us to an unregulated, and therefore brutal and merciless, global market.' Faux describes how free trade and globalization have encouraged businesses to become nationless enterprises detached from the economic well-being of any single country, to the detriment of all but transnational elites. He details the genesis of NAFTA and the failure of the agreement to deliver on its promises to workers, predicting a severe American recession as its legacy. But Faux sees hope for North America in the model of the European Union, a pie-in-the-sky conclusion to this incisive, rancorous book." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

-Chalmers Johnson, author of The Sorrows of Empire

Acclaim for The Global Class War

You will never think about 'free trade' the same way after reading Jeff Faux's superb book. As Faux makes clear, the globalization debate is really about whose interests are served by global elites, and how we need to go about reclaiming a democracy that serves ordinary people. This book should transform public discourse in America.

-Robert Kuttner, founding coeditor of the American Prospect and a contributing columnist to BusinessWeek

Jeff Faux's astonishing story of how class works will scandalize the best names in Wall Street and Washington-especially the much admired Robert Rubin, who along with other elites colluded behind the backs of ordinary citizens in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The most cynical Americans will be shocked by the sordid details. This really is an important book.

-William Greider, author of The Soul of Capitalism and Secrets of the Temple

Globalization is a cover for American imperialism, but the beneficiaries are not the American people at the expense of foreigners but corporate executives at the expense of working-class and poor people wherever they may be. Jeff Faux offers a comprehensive and devastating analysis.

-Chalmers Johnson, author of The Sorrows of Empire

Jeff Faux (Washington, DC) is principal founder and President Emeritus of the Economic Policy Institute. He has written for the Washington Post, the Nation, the New York Times, USA Today, and Harper's.