Free Trade : Myth, Reality and Alternatives
Graham. Dunkley
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | London : : Zed Books, , 2004.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (279 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - cover; Contents; List of Tables; Abbreviations ; Preface; 1: Introduction; Trade: The Making of an Obsession; In-Your-Face Globalisation; Globalism: Three Myths; Free Trade: Five Myths; Challenging TINA - There are Alternatives!; Different Goals for Different Trade and Development; Note; 2: Debating Free Trade Doctrine Forever; The Smith-Ricardo Revolution; Free Trade Doctrine; Comparative Advantage; Gains from Trade; Assumptions, Assumptions!; Here Come the Corollaries; The Rise of Not-Quite-Free Trade; Conclusion; 3: Two Centuries of Free Trade Dissent ; Heresy before Orthodoxy. - Belaboured Playing FieldsHuman Development and the r-Curve; Greening Trade or Trading the Green?; Development, Globalisation and Women; The Neglect of Agriculture; Small Farms Are Beautiful; The Organic Agriculture Revolution; Culture, Community, Values and Tradition; Conclusion; Notes; 6: Import-Substitution versus Export-Orientation ; An Elite Consensus; Models, Numbers and Export Cults; Welfare Methods; Modelling Methods; Case Study Methods; Industry Policy Does Work!; Conclusion; Notes; 7: The Self-Reliance Option; A Respectable Lineage; Defining Self-Reliance; The Case for Self-Reliance. - The Feasibility of Self-RelianceTen Reasons Why Self-Reliance Is More Feasible than Globalisers Admit; Alternative Development and Self-Reliance; Conclusion; Notes; 8: Free Trade: The WTO, Global Myths and Alternatives; Foundation Assumptions; The WTO in Principle; The WTO in Practice; Alternatives; A More Participatory, Cooperative World Order; Conclusion; Notes; 9: Conclusion; References; Index. - The Keynesian BombshellHistory versus Equilibrium; Heretics in the Temple; Conclusion; Notes; 4: Trading and Free Trade in History and Reality; A Clash of Propensities; Trade and Markets Embedded; Trade's Loss of Innocence; The Myth of Free Trade Beneficence; Free Trade, War and Peace; The Legend of the Thirties; Trade and Manifest Destiny; Conclusion; Notes; 5: Development, Myths and Alternatives; Inventing Development; There Are Alternatives!; Trading Development; Of Ladders, Lock-in and Scale Economies; The Terms-of-Trade Problem; Globalisation, Poverty and Inequality. - Free trade and its virtues are a mantra of contemporary economics, and a fixed point of policy for the World Trade Organization. But there are many economists who disagree, and there are many ideas for alternative ways of organizing world trade and increasing the development chances for poor countries. Little wonder that trade has moved beyond the realms of intellectual dispute, and become a leading campaigning issue for social movements and development NGOs. Free Trade explains the case for free trade; the critiques; and how free trade policies work in practice. It introduces powerful and inc
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| Emner | Foreign trade regulation
Free trade Globalization International trade Vis mer... World Trade Organization.
Business & Economics Commerce International Commerce internasjonal handel handelsreguleringer globalisering |
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| ISBN | 185649862X. - 1856498638
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