Trading for Good - How Global Trade Can be Made to Serve People Not Money

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.>

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Christian Felber

Product details

• Authors: Christian Felber, Felber Christian
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781786996015
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-601-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 214 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Economic theory & philosophy, Popular economics, Political structures: democracy, International Economics, International institutions, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, International Trade, Economic theory and philosophy, United Nations & Un Agencies, For higher / tertiary / university education