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Michael Barratt Brown
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Description for Fair Trade
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, tabs.ch. BIC Classification: GTF; KCLT; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 0. Weight in Grams: 355.
The landscape of the world economy is changing rapidly, including new and much more powerful roles for the IMF and World Bank, as well as the rapid growth of wider free trade areas in North America and Europe. Current global trading arrangements, however, involve serious obstacles for exporters from the South as well as rivalries between the major economies. This book explores how the international trading system came into existence, the ways in which commodity markers work today, and why the poor countries of the South are facing not free trade, but unfair trade. It traces ... Read more
The landscape of the world economy is changing rapidly, including new and much more powerful roles for the IMF and World Bank, as well as the rapid growth of wider free trade areas in North America and Europe. Current global trading arrangements, however, involve serious obstacles for exporters from the South as well as rivalries between the major economies. This book explores how the international trading system came into existence, the ways in which commodity markers work today, and why the poor countries of the South are facing not free trade, but unfair trade. It traces ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Weight
297g
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781856490740
SKU
V9781856490740
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Michael Barratt Brown
Michael Barratt Brown has, since 1985, been chair of the Third World Information Network (TWIN) and Twin Trading Ltd, both of which have helped pioneer alternative trading links between North and South. His books include What Economics is About (1970) and Models in Political Economy (1984).
Reviews for Fair Trade
'A book full of originality which offers an alternative theory and an alternative programme to those currently being imposed on the weak by the strong.' Robin Murray, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussez