Free Trade: Myth, Reality and Alternatives

About this Book
 Title
 Copyright
 Contents
 List of Tables, Figures and Boxes
 Abbreviations Used
 Acknowledgements and Dedication
 Preface
 1 Introduction: Trade, Myth and Obsession
 Trade: The Making of an Obsession
 In-Your-Face Globalisation
 Globalism: Three Myths
 Free Trade: Five Myths
 Challenging TINA --
There are Alternatives!
 Different Goals for Different Trade and Development
 2 That's the Theory! Debating Free Trade Doctrine Forever
 The Smith-Ricardo Revolution
 Free Trade Doctrine: Models, Assumptions and Question Marks
 Comparative Advantage
 Gains from Trade. Assumptions, Assumptions!Here Come the Corollaries
 The Rise of Not-Quite-Free Trade
 Conclusion
 3 A Confederacy of Heretics: Two Centuries of Free Trade Dissent
 Heresy before Orthodoxy
 The Keynesian Bombshell
 History versus Equilibrium
 Heretics in the Temple
 Conclusion
 4 What About the Practice? Trading and Free Trade in History and Reality
 A Clash of Propensities
 Trade and Markets Embedded
 Trade's Loss of Innocence
 The Necessity of Virtue: The Myth of Free Trade Beneficence
 Free Trade, War and Peace
 The Legend of the Thirties
 Trade and Manifest Destiny
 Conclusion. 5 Development, Myths and Alternatives: A Critique of Globalising GrowthInventing Development
 There Are Alternatives!
 Trading Development
 Of Ladders, Lock-in and Scale Economies
 Two Steps Backwards: The Terms-of-Trade Problem
 Two Cheers for the Poor: Globalisation, Poverty and Inequality
 Belaboured Playing Fields
 Human Development and the r-Curve
 Greening Trade or Trading the Green?
 Don't Forget the Ladies! Development, Globalisation and Women
 A Poor Relation: The Neglect of Agriculture
 Small Farms Are Beautiful
 Re-greening My Valley: The Organic Agriculture Revolution. The Four Lost Causes: Culture, Community, Values and TraditionConclusion
 6 The Export Cult: The Import-Substitution Versus Export-Orientation Debate
 An Elite Consensus
 Models, Numbers and Export Cults
 Welfare Methods
 Modelling Methods
 Case Study Methods
 Industry Policy Does Work!
 Conclusion
 7 The Self-Reliance Option: Global Myths and Alternative Development
 Self-Reliance: A Respectable Lineage
 Defining Self-Reliance
 The Case for Self-Reliance
 The Feasibility of Self-Reliance
 Ten Reasons Why Self-Reliance Is More Feasible than Globalisers Admit. Alternative Development and Self-RelianceConclusion
 8 The Free Trade Adventure: The Wto, Global Myths and Alternatives
 Foundation Assumptions
 The WTO in Principle
 The WTO in Practice
 Alternatives: Global Free Trade versus Co-operative World
 A More Participatory, Cooperative World Order
 Conclusion
 9 Conclusion
 References
 Index
 About the Author
 About this Series
 Notes.