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 off, Jagdish Bhagwati applies critical insights from revolutionary developments in commercial policy theory – many his own – to show how the pursuit of social and environmental agendas can be creatively reconciled with the pursuit of free trade. Indeed, he argues that free trade, by raising living standards, can serve these agendas far better than can a descent into trade sanctions and restrictions. After settling the score in favour of free trade, Professor Bhagwati considers alternative ways in which it c
ASIN : 0691091560
Publisher : Princeton University Press (26 February 2002)
Language : English
Hardcover : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780691091563
ISBN-13 : 978-0691091563
Reading age : 10 years and up
Item Weight : 318 g
Dimensions : 14.61 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm
Country of Origin : India
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