The clash of globalizations - essays on the political economy of trade and development policy, Kevin P. Gallagher : book review
2015; Volume: 2015; Issue: 60 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1607-2820
Autores Tópico(s)International Development and Aid
ResumoTrade politics have traditionally been mainly shaped by domestic concerns. In this collection of essays, Kevin Gallagher explores the extent to which trading regime [is] reducing the ability of nation-states to pursue policies for financial stability and economic growth, and...the political factors explaining such changes in policy space over time, across different types of treaties and across nations (1). The vastly different political-economic projects of the developing and the developed world have set the scene fora clash of globalisations. Readers of this book should heed Ha-Joon Chang's prescient statement that economics is a political argument - this goes to the heart of the conceptualisation of global trade.
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