Author: Graham Dunkley
Publisher: Melbourne University
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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The 1994 Uruguay Round agreement of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has been heralded as one of the greatest trade agreements in history. However, to some observers it is the road to economic, social and environmental ruin, while to others it represents little more than the creation of a world-dominating bureaucracy which will be controlled entirely by giant transnational corporations. This text outlines the social, political and economic climate in which the 7-year Uruguay Round negotiations took place. It examines the implications and likely outcomes of the round in the wider context of the contemporary thrust towards global free trade and economic globalization.

Author: Graham Dunkley
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856497695
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Free trade lies at the heart of the new era of globalization. This is a review of the history of 20th-century trade agreements, tracing what happened to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) before the USA pushed the world into the Uruguay Round. This renegotiation of the rules of international trade, enshrined in the World Trade Organisation agreements, is now taking free trade much further than ever before. The author examines the benefits and hidden costs of the WTO Agreements, their implications for weaker economies and their likely consequences in terms of environmental protection, labour standards and political sovereignty. Alternatives do exist, he argues, to an over-reliance on free trade. These include managed trade, fair trade and self-reliant trade. He also sets out a series of innovative proposals for reforming the WTO, IMF and World Bank.

Author: Graham Dunkley
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856498630
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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This book takes a fresh look at this issue in economic policy. Graham Dunkley provides a critical history of international trade and an alternative analysis to orthodox doctrines about trade policy. He argues that trade, although a natural economic process, has today become much more complex, deregulated and divorced from development than is desirable. He concludes by suggesting elements of a new approach to development and an alternative world trading and economic order.

Author: Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691117300
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Shows how the pursuit of social and environmental agendas can be creatively reconciled with the pursuit of free trade. Argues that free trade, by raising living standards, can serve these agendas far better than can a descent into trade sanctions and restrictions.

Author: Graham Dunkley
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848136757
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade. A policy of free trade is central to today's world-dominating globalization project. The more euphoric globalists uncritically assume that it has universal and unequivocal benefits for all people and countries. And the perpetual negotiations of the World Trade Organization are wholly based on this presumption. Graham Dunkley shows, however, that leading economists have always been more sceptical about free trade doctrine than the dogmatic globalizers realize. There are more holes in free trade theory than its advocates grasp. And the benefits of free trade in practice are more limited and contingent than they acknowledge. He also argues that the World Bank's long-time push for export-led development is misguided. A more democratic world trading order is necessary and possible. And more interventionist, self-reliant trade policies are feasible, especially if a more holistic view of economic development goals is adopted.

Author: Dewey Lambdin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 031231549X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Capt. Alan Lewrie of England's Royal Navy and his men encounter their fiercest fight yet, where though the stakes are inconceivably high, the rewards may be higher.

Author: Ray Keating
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781688412453
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Tapping into his experiences as an economist, policy analyst, newspaper and online columnist, entrepreneur, and college professor, who taught MBA courses on international business and entrepreneurship, Ray Keating explores and explains in straightforward fashion 10 key points or areas that everyone - from entrepreneurs and executives to students and employees to politicians and taxpayers - needs to understand about how trade works and how free trade generates benefits for people throughout the nation, around the world, and across income levels. The 10 points or areas covered in FREE TRADE ROCKS! are... Point 1: Do People "Get It" on Free Trade? Point 2: Economics 101 on Trade Point 3: Debunking Trade Myths Point 4: Trade and the U.S. Economy Point 5: Trading Partners Point 6: Trade and Small Business Point 7: Ills of Protectionism Point 8: Brief History of Free Trade Deals Point 9: The Morality of Free Trade Point 10: The Future of Trade Keating makes clear that nations don't trade. Instead, businesses and individuals trade, and free trade is simply about expanding the freedom to trade by reducing or eliminating governmental costs and restrictions. As for the best agenda on trade, Keating declares, "Kill tariffs, eliminate quotas, and reduce government rules and regulations that burden consumers, entrepreneurs, businesses and workers, and discover, once again, how much free trade rocks!"

Author: Condy Raguet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free trade
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Author: Andre Norton
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312859201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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The adventures in space of the Solar Queen, a trading ship and its crew with telepathetic powers. They are sent to mine a planet with dangerous weather and equally dangerous pirates in the vicinity. By the author of Derelict for Trade.

Author: Paulo Gilberto Fagundes Vizentini
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842773130
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This book focuses on one of the most strategic developments in international trade-the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas Agreement-due for completion in 2005. This US initiative aims to replicate the NAFTA Agreement across all 34 countries of South and North America (except Cuba). This volume explains the origins and ongoing process of the negotiations and explains why the US wants to expand its NAFTA model. It makes clear that investment protection, in addition to trade, is at the heart of the new agreement. And it examines in-depth the possible consequences for Mercosur, Brazil, and the region's many small economies.