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Trading for Good Christian Felber

Trading for Good By Christian Felber

Trading for Good by Christian Felber


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In an era of increasing global inequality, free trade ideologues and protectionist prophets, Christian Felber sets out visionary new roadmap for making trade good.

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Trading for Good: How Global Trade Can be Made to Serve People Not Money by Christian Felber

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but few would consider it a social good. Instead, our views on trade have polarized between two extremes: 'free trade' ideologues who regard trade as an end in itself, and 'protectionists' who view it as a destructive force to be contained. But there is another way to trade - one with the interests of people, not profit, at its heart. In this visionary work Christian Felber, founder of the Economy for the Common Good movement, offers a dazzling new paradigm for the global trading order. Confronting the 'free trade religion' which has reigned since Adam Smith, Felber champions an alternative approach in which trade serves the wider interests of society, incorporating the key issues of our time: human rights, climate change, and the growing divide richer and poorer countries. He proposes the groundbreaking idea of an 'Ethical Trade Zone', founded on a principled approach to tariffs and trade policies, and built with international cooperation on trade, taxation and labour. Penetrating and passionate, Christian Felber shows how this brave new economic world can be built democratically from the grassroots up, and how trading for good can be made a reality.

About Christian Felber

Christian Felber is an Austrian alternative economist and university lecturer. He is an internationally renowned speaker, author of several award-winning bestsellers and a regular commentator on ethics, business and economics in various media. He co-founded the NGO Attac Austria and initiated the Economy for the Common Good as well as the planned Bank for the Common Good, which will be Austria's first ethical finance institute. His previous works include Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good (Zed 2015).

Table of Contents

I. Introduction Part 1. Origins and Critique of the Religion of Free Trade Part 2. The Substantive Alternative: Ethical World Trade 1. Significance of Trade 1a) Trade is not an end but a means 1b) Alignment of world trade rules with the UN goals 1c) The UN as headquarters of international business law 2. For an Ethical Trade System within the United Nations 2a) Protecting the values and goals of the international community 2b) Infant industry policy and non-reciprocity between unequals 2c) Increasing the scope for democratic action 2d) Economic subsidiarity, autarky, regionalization and subsistence 3. A Pragmatic Alternative: The Common Good Balance Sheet Part 3. The Procedural Alternative: Sovereign Democracy 1. The centrality of democracy 2. The democratic genesis of international (business) law 3. Encouraging examples 4. Questions for the trade convention

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GOR010183022
9781786996015
1786996014
Trading for Good: How Global Trade Can be Made to Serve People Not Money by Christian Felber
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2019-11-15
256
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