Screen LibraryTrading for good : how global trade can be made to serve people not money /
It seems almost impossible to talk about trade without immediately invoking the idea of war. Countries like the United States and China slap tariffs on each other in a tit-for-tat fight over imbalances and surpluses. And on the ideological side, there has raged a decades-long contest between two ext...
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Zed,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English German |
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| Summary: |
It seems almost impossible to talk about trade without immediately invoking the idea of war. Countries like the United States and China slap tariffs on each other in a tit-for-tat fight over imbalances and surpluses. And on the ideological side, there has raged a decades-long contest between two extremes: free trade ideologues who regard trade as an end in itself, and protectionists, who view it as a destructive force to be contained. We seem to be in an endless cycle of trade battles, and it has left much of the world on the losing side. But these tired approaches don't have to be the defau |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 231 pages : tables ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781786996015 1786996014 9781786996022 1786996022 |
| Index Number: | HF1379 |
| CLC: | F74 |
| Call Number: | F74/F311 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Origins and critique of the religion of free trade -- The substative alternative: ethical world trade. Significance of trade ; For an ethical trade system within the United Nations ; A pragmatic alternative: the Common Good Balance Sheet -- The procedural alteranative: sovereign democracy. The centrality of democracy ; The democratic genesis of international (business) law ; Encouraging examples ; Questions for the trade convention. |