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Eyes on Trade

…article by William Drake and Kalypso Nicolaidis shows how corporate lobbyists “got-r-done”: The very act of defining services transactions as ‘trade’ established normative presumptions that ‘freetrade was the yardstick…

Train Drain

…are often reluctant to voice public criticism for fear of retaliation, but through their trade associations they describe systematic breakdowns in service that prevent them from growing. In September, Jeffrey…

…it saves, it will need to borrow, and the counterpart to that borrowing is a trade deficit. America’s burgeoning trade deficit is a result of Bush’s unprecedented mismanagement. Tax cuts…

Confusion and language American Style

…policy champion, a financier, and a key partner”: Neoliberalism. Via the New World Dictionary: — n a modern politico-economic theory favouring free trade, privatization, minimal government intervention in business, reduced…

The hypocrisy of most deficit discussions

…which would give them some semblance of equality of bargaining power with the concentrated power of megalithic multinational corporations, or the “globalization” policies that lead to free trade agreements that…

Labor as a Common Pool Resource

Labor as a Common Pool Resource The everyday experience of working people, economic policies of governments, bargaining priorities of trade unions, and theoretical models of economists refute the idealistic maxim…