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Taking Trade to the Streets - The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization (Paperback)
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In the wake of civil protest in Seattle during the 1999 World Trade
Organization meeting, many issues raised by globalization and
increasingly free trade have been in the forefront of the news. But
these issues are not necessarily new. "Taking Trade to the Streets
"describes how so many individuals and nongovernmental
organizations came over time to see trade agreements as threatening
national systems of social and environmental regulations. Using the
United States as a case study, Susan Ariel Aaronson examines the
history of trade agreement critics, focusing particular attention
on NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada,
Mexico, and the United States) and the Tokyo and Uruguay Rounds of
trade liberalization under the GATT. She also considers the
question of whether such trade agreement critics are truly
protectionist.
The book explores how trade agreement critics built a fluid global
movement to redefine the "terms" of trade agreements (the
international system of rules governing trade) and to redefine how
citizens talk about trade. (The "terms of trade" is a relationship
between the prices of exports and of imports.) That movement, which
has been growing since the 1980s, transcends borders as well as
longstanding views about the role of government in the economy.
While many trade agreement critics on the left say they want
government policies to make markets more equitable, they find
themselves allied with activists on the right who want to reduce
the role of government in the economy.
Aaronson highlights three hot-button social issues--food safety,
the environment, and labor standards--to illustrate how conflicts
arise between trade and other types ofregulation. And finally she
calls for a careful evaluation of the terms of trade from which an
honest debate over regulating the global economy might
emerge.
Ultimately, this book links the history of trade policy to the
history of social regulation. It is a social, political, and
economic history that will be of interest to policymakers and
students of history, economics, political science, government,
trade, sociology, and international affairs.
Susan Ariel Aaronson is Senior Fellow at the National Policy
Institute and occasional commentator on National Public Radio's
"Morning Edition."
General
Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2002 |
First published: |
May 2002 |
Authors: |
Susan Ariel Aaronson
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-472-08867-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
General
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LSN: |
0-472-08867-X |
Barcode: |
9780472088676 |
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