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Author:   Christian Felber
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781786996022

ISBN 10:   1786996022
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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[Felber] advocates a dramatic departure from market economics driven by consumption and production patterns driving material efficiency and welfare maximization. Rooted in Adam Smith, this system pervades conventional economics and its embedded welfare assumptions. To challenge the assumptions is to challenge the model itself. Felber posits a much more complex picture of welfare and collective and economic 'good, ' and the logic of that picture deviates materially from the market model. -- Choice

"""[Felber] advocates a dramatic departure from market economics driven by consumption and production patterns driving material efficiency and welfare maximization. Rooted in Adam Smith, this system pervades conventional economics and its embedded welfare assumptions. To challenge the assumptions is to challenge the model itself. Felber posits a much more complex picture of welfare and collective and economic 'good, ' and the logic of that picture deviates materially from the market model.""-- ""Choice"""

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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).

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