http://www.brettonwoods.org/index.php/180/Bretton_Woods_Institutions

A good brief summary of Bretton Woods institutions with links to other parts of the Bretton Woods website.

www.iisd.org

International Institute for Sustainable Development: contains wide-ranging information on the developing world.

www.oecd.org

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): an invaluable source of statistical data as well as more general discussion of current developments in the global economy.

http://europa.eu/index_en.htm

This is the (English-language) gateway to the EU website which contains an enormous amount of information. Note that all the regional organizations mentioned in this chapter have websites which are easily found with a search engine.

http://www.wto.org

Site of the World Trade Organization with information on history, purpose, and functions as well as many useful documents and data sources.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0

RSA Animate series: Crisis of Capitalism. Academic David Harvey looks at global capitalism and asks whether it might be time for a new social order. Do you think capitalism’s time has come?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g

RSA Animate series: First as Tragedy then as Farce. Philosopher Slavoj Zizek looks at the evolution of capitalism and its relationship with the concept of charity. Do you find the ideas in the video provoking or controversial? How do they relate to the ideologies discussed in chapter 8?