Myths Of Free Trade
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Author | : Anwar Shaikh |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2007-01-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1135986959 |
Written by an international team of contributors this book is a critical examination of the ongoing enterprise of neoliberalism; its history, theory, practice, and most of all, of its outcomes.
Author | : Sherrod Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
"U.S. Representative Sherrod Brown - a leading progressive voice in Congress - takes apart free-trade dogma, myth by myth." "Ten years after NAFTA, free-trade policies have not brought prosperity to Mexican workers, and more than one million American jobs have been lost as a result of the agreement. Do free-trade pacts foster democracy? Brown examines the facts. Are fast-track agreements necessary to fight the war on terrorism? Brown dissects the arguments and the evidence."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Ha-Joon Chang |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002-07-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0857287613 |
How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to 'kick away the ladder' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing countries from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves have used.
Author | : Kenneth S. Friedman |
Publisher | : Algora Publishing |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0875862357 |
What happens when the rich get far, far richer? Laissez faire has moved us from democracy to corporatism, replacing integrity and values with a focus on OC filling our bellies.OCO How about humanism, for a change? This comprehensive critique has important pra"
Author | : Paul Bairoch |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1995-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0226034631 |
Paul Bairoch deflates twenty commonly held myths about economic history. Among these myths are that free trade and population growth have historically led to periods of economic growth, and that colonial powers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became rich through the exploitation of the Third World. Bairoch shows that these beliefs are based on insufficient knowledge and wrong interpretations of the history of economies of the United States, Europe, and the Third World, and he re-examines the facts to set the record straight. Bairoch argues that until the early 1960s, the history of international trade of the developed countries was almost entirely one of protectionism rather than a "Golden Era" of free trade, and he reveals that, in fact, past periods of economic growth in the Western World correlated strongly with protectionist policy. He also demonstrates that developed countries did not exploit the Third World for raw materials during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as some economists and many politicians have held. Among the many other myths that Bairoch debunks are beliefs about whether colonization triggered the Industrial Revolution, the effects of the economic development of the West on the Third World, and beliefs about the 1929 crash and the Great Depression. Bairoch's lucid prose makes the book equally accessible to economists of every stripe, as well as to historians, political scientists, and other social scientists.
Author | : Mark Anthony Martinez |
Publisher | : Kumarian Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1565492676 |
* Explains how the 2008 financial meltdown came about and how to revitalize global and domestic economies * Shows how capitalist economies developed and why the state matters in their functioning Free market purists claim that the state is an inefficient institution that does little for society beyond providing stability and protection. The activities related to distributing resources and economic growth, they say, are better left to the invisible hand of the marketplace. These notions now seem tragically misguided in the wake of the 2008 market collapse and bailout. Mark Martinez describes how the flawed myth of the "invisible hand" distorted our understanding of how modern capitalist markets developed and actually work. Martinez draws from history to illustrate that political processes and the state are not only instrumental in making capitalist markets work but that there would be no capitalist markets or wealth creation without state intervention. He brings his story up to the present day to show how the seeds of an unprecedented government intervention in the financial markets were sown in past actions. The Myth of the Free Market is a fascinating and accessible introduction to comparative economic systems as well as an incisive refutation of the standard mantras of neoclassical free market economic theory.
Author | : Graham Dunkley |
Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2013-04-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1848136757 |
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 | : Ha-Joon Chang |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2009-01-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1596915986 |
Challenges beliefs about free trade, globalization, and economic justice, revealing how top-level economies achieved their wealth through practices that victimized the developing world.
Author | : Anwar Shaikh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Free trade |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pierre Lemieux |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2018-08-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1538122138 |
Putting tariffs on imported goods or setting other barriers to international trade can be tempting for politicians. They assume that many of their constituents believe that free trade is not fair trade and that other countries aren’t playing by the rules. This belief makes it easy for industry leaders to demand protection for their businesses and their workers—to “put America first.” But Americans should resist the siren calls of protectionism. In this highly relevant protectionism primer, Pierre Lemieux shows what can happen if they don’t. As the author demonstrates, trade between any two countries is fair for the same reasons as exchange between two individuals: it is to the benefit of both. Lemieux carefully refutes the arguments of those who would curtail Americans’ access to the benefits of international commerce—from the claim that we can boost economic growth by reducing imports to the belief that free trade leads to “shipping jobs overseas.” Yes, manufacturing jobs are declining in this country and have been since the 1950s. But, as Lemieux points out, that’s in large part because Americans are making more advanced products more efficiently—that’s our comparative advantage. And this is happening as less-developed countries are producing more labor-intensive, low-tech goods—that’s their comparative advantage. All parties to a trade benefit. Lemieux shows how free trade improves the lives of American consumers, especially the poor. The narrow agenda of the protectionists—to protect a small minority of producers at the expense of millions of their fellow Americans—is the wrong path for an increasingly diverse and complex economy. This concise primer shows you why.