Trading for Good (eBook)

How Global Trade Can be Made to Serve People Not Money

Christian Felber (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
256 Seiten
Zed Books (Verlag)
978-1-78699-604-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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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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.

Autor

lt;p>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).

Inhalt

• 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2019
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: apple social responsibility • Common Good • Corporate Social Responsibility • CSR • democratic • Economics • Environmental Responsibility • ethical trade • ethical trading initiative • ethical world trade • ethics • eti training • for the many not the few • Handbook • how to • individual social responsibility • Investment • MONEY • oxfam scandal • Social Democracy • socially irresponsible • socially responsible business • Socially Responsible Investment • trade initiative • United Nations
• ISBN-10: 1-78699-604-9 / 1786996049
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78699-604-6 / 9781786996046