Selling of Free Trade - Nafta, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy

"If there is spin, there is counterspin: The Selling of 'Free Trade' is a devastating unraveling of yet another Bill Clinton con job. MacArthur tells the NAFTA story in the voices of those who did the spinning and those who suffered from it. It doesn't get much better."—Seymour M. Hersh

"A gripping and fresh analysis of the corporate construction of an onrushing NAFTA and the human damage in its wake. MacArthur demonstrates what happens when an underdeveloped democracy is confronted by an overdeveloped corporation-governmental oligarchy."—Ralph Nader, consumer advocate.

List of contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. DEATH OF A FACTORY: LONG ISLAND CITY
2. THE TRUE BELIEVERS
3. CLINTON ANTES UP
4. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, INC.
5. BUYING THE POT
6. THE PAYOFF
7. COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: NOGALES

AFTERWORD
INDEX

About the author

John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine, is an award-winning journalist and author of Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War (California, 1993).

Summary

This guide shows how Washignton works to accomplish political or economic goals, even when confronted with widespead popular opposition. The author chronicles the campaign in 1993 that led to passage of the controversial law creating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Product details

• Authors: John R MacArthur, John R. Macarthur, MacArthur John R.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.2001
• EAN: 9780520231788
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23178-8
• No. of pages: 412
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, Political structures: democracy, trade agreements, United States of America, USA, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, International trade and commerce, Public international law: economic and trade