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Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
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Description for Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics
Paperback. Emphasizes that we need not choose between accepting and rejecting globalization, and that we can have a different globalization. This title also states that the movement of people and ideas is more important than the movement of things and money, and that freedom to change the institutions defining a market economy is needed. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Free Trade Reimagined begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against free trade. Instead, he attacks and revises the terms on which the traditional debate between free traders and protectionists has been joined. Unger's intervention in this major contemporary debate serves as a point of departure for a proposal to rethink the basic ideas with which we explain economic activity. He suggests, by example as well as by theory, a way of understanding contemporary economies that is both more ... Read more
Free Trade Reimagined begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against free trade. Instead, he attacks and revises the terms on which the traditional debate between free traders and protectionists has been joined. Unger's intervention in this major contemporary debate serves as a point of departure for a proposal to rethink the basic ideas with which we explain economic activity. He suggests, by example as well as by theory, a way of understanding contemporary economies that is both more ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691145884
SKU
V9780691145884
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About Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Roberto Mangabeira Unger served until recently as Brazil's Minister of Strategic Affairs. He is widely regarded as one of the leading theorists of society in the world. His two most recent books are "The Left Alternative" and "The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound".
Reviews for Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics
"Roberto Mangabeira Unger is a restless visionary."
William Connolly, New York Times "[T]he book ... is replete with new ideas and challenging propositions. Many of them are well taken, and may some day be incorporated in accepted economic theory."
Mordechai E. Kreinin, World Trade Review "Unger's book deepens and broadens the debate on free trade and is therefore well worth the attention ... Read more
William Connolly, New York Times "[T]he book ... is replete with new ideas and challenging propositions. Many of them are well taken, and may some day be incorporated in accepted economic theory."
Mordechai E. Kreinin, World Trade Review "Unger's book deepens and broadens the debate on free trade and is therefore well worth the attention ... Read more