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Alternative Trade
Gavin Fridell
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Description for Alternative Trade
Paperback. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: KCLT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 246.
Free trade does not make a significantly positive contribution to a society’s well being, nor does real free trade exist. In Alternative Trade, Gavin Fridell confronts these assumptions through a passionate and rigorous appraisal of alternative trade and its imperfect legacy. Examining the history of alternative trade models – the International Coffee Agreement, the Canadian Wheat Board and the European-Caribbean banana regime – Fridell exposes the unbridgeable gap between “free trade” proclamations and the lack of actually existing free trade, arguing that the alternative trade models are much more socially efficient than what followed in their wake.
Additionally, Fridell places ... Read more
Free trade does not make a significantly positive contribution to a society’s well being, nor does real free trade exist. In Alternative Trade, Gavin Fridell confronts these assumptions through a passionate and rigorous appraisal of alternative trade and its imperfect legacy. Examining the history of alternative trade models – the International Coffee Agreement, the Canadian Wheat Board and the European-Caribbean banana regime – Fridell exposes the unbridgeable gap between “free trade” proclamations and the lack of actually existing free trade, arguing that the alternative trade models are much more socially efficient than what followed in their wake.
Additionally, Fridell places ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Canada
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
ISBN
9781552665879
SKU
V9781552665879
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-2
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