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Free Trade Today
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
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Description for Free Trade Today
Paperback. Presents insights from developments in commercial policy theory to show how the pursuit of social and environmental agendas can be creatively reconciled with the pursuit of free trade. This book argues that free trade, by raising living standards, can serve these agendas far better than can a descent into trade sanctions and restrictions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 5 line illus. BIC Classification: KCLT; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 214 x 11. Weight in Grams: 194.
Free trade, indeed economic globalization generally, is under siege. The conventional arguments for protectionism have been discredited but not banished. And free trade faces strong new challenges from a variety of groups, including environmentalists and human rights activists as well as traditional lobbies who wrap their agendas in the language of justice and rights. These groups, claiming a general interest and denouncing free trade as a special interest of corporations and other capitalist forces, have organized large and vocal protests in Seattle, Prague, and elsewhere. Based on his acclaimed Stockholm lectures and picking up where his widely influential Protectionism left ... Read more
Free trade, indeed economic globalization generally, is under siege. The conventional arguments for protectionism have been discredited but not banished. And free trade faces strong new challenges from a variety of groups, including environmentalists and human rights activists as well as traditional lobbies who wrap their agendas in the language of justice and rights. These groups, claiming a general interest and denouncing free trade as a special interest of corporations and other capitalist forces, have organized large and vocal protests in Seattle, Prague, and elsewhere. Based on his acclaimed Stockholm lectures and picking up where his widely influential Protectionism left ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691117300
SKU
V9780691117300
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About Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor at Columbia University and Andre Meyer Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. An external adviser to the Director General of the World Trade Organization, he has been Economic Policy Adviser to the Director General, GATT, and Special Adviser to the United Nations on Globalization. He is the author of several ... Read more
Reviews for Free Trade Today
"A delight to read; and Bhagwati's irrepressible personality bubbles through on every page... [A] ride that is worth the ticket."
Robert Lawrence, Financial Times "Jagdish Bhagwati is a very distinguished writer, with a world reputation as a careful but passionate proponent of free trade."
Times Literary Supplement "One of the best things about the book is that it confounds stereotypes. Mr. Bhagwati, ... Read more
Robert Lawrence, Financial Times "Jagdish Bhagwati is a very distinguished writer, with a world reputation as a careful but passionate proponent of free trade."
Times Literary Supplement "One of the best things about the book is that it confounds stereotypes. Mr. Bhagwati, ... Read more