Beyond free trade alternative approaches to trade, politics and power
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TextSeries: Publication details: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2015Description: xi, 305 p. 23 cmISBN: - 9781349489671
- 306.34 23 BE-
- HF1008 .B49 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : beyond free trade / Kate Ervine and Gavin Fridell -- Historicizing trade. Trade history : from the tree to the futures market, the historical process of coffee commodification, 1500-today / Steven Topik ; Food regimes and food import dependence : an analysis of Jamaica's food imports, 1950-2000 / John M. Talbot ; historicising trade preferences and development : the case of the ACP-EU canned tuna preference / Liam Campling -- Politicizing trade : shifting alliances and new trends. Regional trading agreements, the geopolitics of China's rise, and development in East Asia / Paul Bowles ; The new Chinese presence in the Caribbean : towards a global understanding / Cecilia A. Green ; The new geoeconomics of capital in Latin America : alternative trade and development in an era of extractive capitalism / Henry Veltmeyer ; Canada, extractivism, and hemispheric relations / Ricardo Grinspun and Jennifer Mills ; The commodities boom in South America : a case of regressive restructuring? / James M. Cypher ; Trading on the offshore : territorialization and the ocean grab in the international seabed / Anna Zalik -- Trading for change? Can shopping change the world? : fair trade social premiums and neoliberal development in the global recession / Mark Moberg ; On the margins of the rising South : ALBA and petrocaribe in the Carribbean / Gavin Fridell ; South American post-newliberalism and external imbalances : the case of Argentina, 2003-2014 / Ruth Felder ; Trading carbon : offsets, human rights, and environmental regulation / Kate Ervine ; The resilience of forced labour in global production and trade / Nicola Phillips -- Conclusion. Trade policy and politics : from comparative advantage to trade gamble / Gavin Fridell and Kate Ervine.
Counters the mainstream vision of trade by examining the political, social, ecological, ideological, and economic dynamics of international trade as it exists in today's complicated, power-laden world.
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