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Beyond free trade : alternative approaches to trade, politics and power /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Other Authors: Ervine, Kate (Editor), Fridell, Gavin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:International political economy series.
Subjects:
International trade.
Free trade.
Commercial policy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Beyond Free Trade; Kate Ervine and Gavin Fridell
  • PART I: HISTORICIZING TRADE
  • 2. Trade History: From the Tree to the Futures Market, the Historical Process of Coffee Commodification, 1500-Today; Steven Topik
  • 3. Food Regimes and Food Import Dependence: An Analysis of Jamaica's Food Imports, 1950-2000; John Talbot
  • 4. Historicising Trade Preferences and Development: The Case of the ACP-EU Canned Tuna Preference; Liam Campling
  • PART II: POLITICIZING TRADE: SHIFTING ALLIANCES AND NEW TRENDS
  • 5. Regional Trading Agreements, the Geopolitics of China's Rise, and Development in East Asia; Paul Bowles
  • 6. The New Chinese Presence in the Caribbean: Towards a Global Understanding; Cecilia Green
  • 7. The New Geoeconomics of Capital in Latin America: Alternative Trade and Development in an Era of Extractive Capitalism; Henry Veltmeyer
  • 8. Canada, Extractivism, and Hemispheric Relations; Ricardo Grinspun and Jennifer Mills
  • 9. The Commodities Boom in South America: A Case of Regressive Restructuring?; James M. Cypher
  • 10. Trading on the Offshore: Territorialization and the Ocean Grab in the International Seabed; Anna Zalik
  • PART III: TRADING FOR CHANGE?
  • 11. Can Shopping Change the World?: Fair Trade Social Premiums and Neoliberal Development in the Global Recession; Mark Moberg
  • 12. On the Margins of the Rising South: ALBA and Petrocaribe in the Caribbean; Gavin Fridell
  • 13. South American Post-neoliberalism and External Imbalances: The Case of Argentina, 2003-2014; Ruth Felder
  • 14. Trading Carbon: Offsets, Human Rights, and Environmental Regulation; Kate Ervine
  • 15. The Resilience of Forced Labour in Global Production and Trade; Nicola Phillips
  • CONCLUSION
  • 16. Trade Policy and Politics: From Comparative Advantage to Trade Gamble; Gavin Fridell and Kate Ervine.