Cosmopolitanism and global financial reform : a pragmatic approach to the Tobin tax
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Cosmopolitanism and global financial reform : a pragmatic approach to the Tobin tax
（RIPE series in global political economy, 30）
Routledge, 2010
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [126]-133) and index
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Description
Acknowledgement of the ethical dimension of global finance is commonplace in the wake of financial crises. The sub-prime crisis and ensuing credit crunch are only the latest in a long run of global financial crises that wreak social havoc and force us to consider alternative possibilities for global finance.
By defining cosmopolitanism and analysing how cosmopolitan ideas can increasingly provide an account of the governance of global finance, Brassett examines whether global finance can be regulated so as to provide cosmopolitan values like social security, equality and democratic accountability. It suggests that such an exercise is not adequately resourced by existing theoretical approaches to critical IPE and instead develops a new pragmatic approach based on the thought of Richard Rorty. Combining ethical theory with empirical analysis, it focuses on the Tobin Tax - (a proposal to place a small levy on foreign currency transactions to dampen speculation and raise vast revenues) - and explores whether it could underpin more cosmopolitan forms of global financial governance.
This book situates cosmopolitan ideas in the extant dilemmas and indeterminacies of global ethics, suggesting alternatives where possible. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international ethics, global governance, global civil, international relations, international political economy, global finance, public policy, critical theory, political theory and philosophy.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. The Ethical Turn in IPE:The Case For A Pragmatic Approach 3. From Economics to Politics and Ethics: Vocabularies of the Tobin Tax 4. Cosmopolitan Justice and the Tobin Tax 5. Cosmopolitan Democracy and the Tobin Tax 6. Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism: The Tobin Tax as Sentimental Education 7. Conclusion
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