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Author: Susan Ariel Aaronson Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472022237 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
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 of regulation. 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."
Author: Susan Ariel Aaronson Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472022237 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
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 of regulation. 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."
Author: Daniel T. Griswold Publisher: Cato Institute ISBN: 193530819X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 226
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Politicians and pundits can rage against free trade and globalization, but much of what they convey is myth says the author. He argues that free trade is good for the American family. Among the benefits he discusses are import competition that provides lower prices, greater variety, and better quality, especially for poor and middle class families. Driven in part by trade, most new jobs are well-paying service jobs. Foreign investment here has created well-paying jobs, and investment abroad has given United States companies access to millions of new customers. Trade helped expand the global middle class, reducing poverty and child labor while fueling demand for U.S. products. The author also looks at how the past three decades of an open global economy have created a more prosperous, democratic, and peaceful world.
Author: Alison Brown Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1317280091 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 254
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Street trade is a critical and highly visible component of the informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange. Yet policy responses are dismissive and evictions commonplace. Despite being progressively marginalised from public space, street traders in the global south are engaged in spatial and political battlegrounds to reclaim space, and claim de facto property rights over their place of work, through quiet infiltration, union power, or direct action. This book explores 'rebel streets', the challenges faced by informal economy actors and how organised groups are seeking to reframe legal understandings to create new claims to space and urban rights. The book sets out new thinking and a conceptual framework for improved understanding of the plural relationship between law, rights, and space for the informal economy, the contest between traditional, modernist and rights-based approaches to development, and impacts on the urban working poor. With a focus on street trading, the book seeks to reframe the legal context in which modern informal economies operate, drawing on key areas of academic inquiry and case studies of how vendors are staking claim to urban rights. The book argues for a reconceptualisation of legal instruments to provide a rights-based framework for urban work that recognises the legitimacy of urban informal economies, the scope for collective management of urban resources, and the social value of public space as a site for urban livelihoods. It will be of interest to students and scholars of geography, economics, urban studies, development studies, political studies and law.
Author: Douglas A. Irwin Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022639901X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 873
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A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year: “Tells the history of American trade policy . . . [A] grand narrative [that] also debunks trade-policy myths.” —Economist Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevitable, James Madison argued in the Federalist Papers, because trade policy involves clashing economic interests. The struggle between the winners and losers from trade has always been fierce because dollars and jobs are at stake: depending on what policy is chosen, some industries, farmers, and workers will prosper, while others will suffer. Douglas A. Irwin’s Clashing over Commerce is the most authoritative and comprehensive history of US trade policy to date, offering a clear picture of the various economic and political forces that have shaped it. From the start, trade policy divided the nation—first when Thomas Jefferson declared an embargo on all foreign trade and then when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union over excessive taxes on imports. The Civil War saw a shift toward protectionism, which then came under constant political attack. Then, controversy over the Smoot-Hawley tariff during the Great Depression led to a policy shift toward freer trade, involving trade agreements that eventually produced the World Trade Organization. Irwin makes sense of this turbulent history by showing how different economic interests tend to be grouped geographically, meaning that every proposed policy change found ready champions and opponents in Congress. Deeply researched and rich with insight and detail, Clashing over Commerce provides valuable and enduring insights into US trade policy past and present. “Combines scholarly analysis with a historian’s eye for trends and colorful details . . . readable and illuminating, for the trade expert and for all Americans wanting a deeper understanding of America’s evolving role in the global economy.” —National Review “Magisterial.” —Foreign Affairs
Author: Sudhir Venkatesh Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440631891 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 199
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A New York Times Bestseller "A rich portrait of the urban poor, drawn not from statistics but from vivid tales of their lives and his, and how they intertwined." —The Economist "A sensitive, sympathetic, unpatronizing portrayal of lives that are ususally ignored or lumped into ill-defined stereotype." —Finanical Times Foreword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics When first-year graduate student Sudhir Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, he hoped to find a few people willing to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty--and impress his professors with his boldness. He never imagined that as a result of this assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade embedded inside the projects under JT’s protection. From a privileged position of unprecedented access, Venkatesh observed JT and the rest of his gang as they operated their crack-selling business, made peace with their neighbors, evaded the law, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang’s complex hierarchical structure. Examining the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, and often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban war zone, Gang Leader for a Day also tells the story of the complicated friendship that develops between Venkatesh and JT--two young and ambitious men a universe apart. Sudhir Venkatesh’s latest book Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy—a memoir of sociological investigation revealing the true face of America’s most diverse city—is also published by Penguin Press.
Author: Mark Douglas Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440625417 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 240
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Douglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistency and helps traders overcome the ingrained mental habits that cost them money. He takes on the myths of the market and exposes them one by one teaching traders to look beyond random outcomes, to understand the true realities of risk, and to be comfortable with the "probabilities" of market movement that governs all market speculation.
Author: Michael Lewis Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393244660 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 288
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Argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets.
Author: Elijah Anderson Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393070387 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 362
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Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules—based largely on an individual's ability to command respect—is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.
Author: Iris Marie Mack Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781541024618 Category : Languages : en Pages : 112
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In our new book we show investors on Main Street how to make money by renting their stocks! That's right! Investors can actually "rent" stocks in their portfolios by trading covered call options. This conservative investment strategy allows investors to generate extra cash flow in their portfolios. The covered call options strategy is so safe, it is suitable for most retirement accounts. By the time you finish reading this book, you will agree that this conservative investment strategy is indeed bulletproof! ************************************* Ms. Mack has an extraordinary ability to explain complex financial subjects with the use of simple examples and analogies. The covered call strategy is one that can be taken advantage of by anyone who currently owns or is contemplating owning shares of most companies. Much higher earnings and returns are awarded to persons who astutely engage in this basic option strategy. --- Gustavo Ayala, Director of Power Trading, Bolt Energy A thorough review of the latest in sustainable financial innovation which seeks to protect a wider sector of the economy - including those historically ignored by more 'mainstream' finance - from unprecedented yet still rising risks facing investors, savers and institutions. Dr. Mack and her team have produced an impressive text which synthesizes a rarely detailed discussion of recent crises, established finance and strategy pedagogy, and a welcomed approach to offsetting said risks - all the while prudently seeking alpha. --- Pye Ian, MBA - Economic Analyst and Private Equity Investment Advisor Under current monetary policy paradigm, the authorities permanently convert someone's private failures into public debts thus transferring public wealth into private pockets at their choice. The whole debt pyramid is huge, drags the economy down but still growing. What can we do about that? Doctor Iris Mack and her graduate students team suggest to invest in ourselves, our knowledge & understanding, better family asset management practices and more sophisticated individual financial behavior. Spend your time on your training, the most practical approach is guaranteed. Surely, this will not work the next day, however, recall 'the rescue of drowning - the handiwork of drowning'. Just add this book to your personal Survival Kit. --- Alexei Kazakov, PhD - Former Hedge Fund Manager Dr. Mack has managed to demonstrate the link between economics and a powerful option strategy. Using numerous comparisons and visuals, this book is a must read for anyone who wants to take control of their financial future. Highly recommended for every business library. --- Michael C. Thomsett, PhD - Options Author and Educator Dr. Iris Mack�s book 'A Wall Street Bailout for Main Street' is a must read for anyone wishing to learn, generate extra income, and gain a fighting chance in the harsh Wall Street environment! It is written in such a friendly way that even a person with no experience in the topic can easily read it and understand it completely. Step by step the author takes you by the hand through a very precise trading strategy using great illustrations and exercises, making it easier to grasp even the more complex concepts. --- David Trevino Trevino, MBA - Investor Dr. Iris Mack has written a must-read primer for anyone who wants to survive and succeed in today's highly complex market. It's a great gateway to become a professional in investment and risk management. Any Main Street investor serious about making money ought to read it. --- Cheng Wang, MBA - former Energy Commodities Analyst of TechMotion Capital
Author: Burton G. Malkiel Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393330338 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 454
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Updated with a new chapter that draws on behavioral finance, the field that studies the psychology of investment decisions, the bestselling guide to investing evaluates the full range of financial opportunities.
Author: Susan Ariel Aaronson
Author: Susan Ariel Aaronson
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Author: Mark Douglas
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