The free trade adventure : the WTO, the Uruguay Round and globalism : a critique
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The free trade adventure : the WTO, the Uruguay Round and globalism : a critique
Zed Books , Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000
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The free trade adventure : the WTO, the Uruguay Round & globalism : a critique
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First published in 1997 by Melborne University Press
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-331) and index
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Free trade lies at the heart of the new era of globalisation. This superb account explains the theory of free trade and how it has been put into practice. The author reviews the history of 20th century trade agreements. He traces what happened to GATT, with its quite narrow ambit, before the USA pushed the world into the Uruguay Round. This renegotiation of the rules of international trade, enshrined in the World Trade Organisation Agreements, is now taking free trade much further than ever before.
The author examines the benefits and hidden costs of the WTO Agreements in both economic and non-economic terms. He looks at their implications for weaker economies and their likely consequences in terms of environmental protection, labour standards and political sovereignty.
But alternatives do exist, he argues, to an over-reliance on free trade. These include managed trade, fair trade and self-reliant trade. And he sets out a series of innovative proposals for reforming the basic building blocks for managing the global economy - the WTO, IMF and World Bank.
Table of Contents
Part I: GATTing a New World Order
Introduction: The Greatest Agreement in History?
1. The Spirit of the Age? The Free Trade Adventure and the End of History
2. How We Got GATT: A Mildly Heretical History of Trade Agreements
3. The Fall and Rise of GATT: Background of the Uruguay Round
4. Towards a GATT-fearing World: The Results of the Uruguay Round
5. There Goes the Neighbourhood: The Regional Free Trade Adventure
Part II: Problems and Critiques of the Uruguay Round's New World Order
6. Doctrine and Heresy: Two Centuries of Free Trade Debate
7. The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread? Benefits and Hidden Costs of the Uruguay Round
8. Structural Change for Whom? Structural Impacts of the Uruguay Round and Beyond
9. At Whose Service? Services and Intellectual Property in the Uruguay Round
10. Greening the GATT or GATTing the Green? Environment and Standards in the Uruguay Round
11. The Perils of Globalism: the WTO in the New World Order
12. Is There Life after GATT? Alternatives to the Free Trade Adventure
13. Postscript: In Pursuit of the Global Millennium
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