Unger Free Trade Reimagined

The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2785-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Unger, Roberto Mangabeira

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Themes and Scope of this Book 1

Chapter 1 7

Troubles: The Enigmas of Free Trade Familiar Problems, Disturbing Solutions 7

The History of Free Trade and Protection: Subversive Lessons 15

The Authority of Free Trade Doctrine: Reasons Amounting to Objections 20

Chapter 2 25

Troubles: The Incompleteness of Comparative Advantage The Doctrine of Comparative Advantage 25

Incompleteness: Indeterminacy Resulting from Failure to Justify Unique Assignments of Comparative Advantage 28

Incompleteness: Confusion Resulting from Uncertainty about the Limits of Our Power Collectively to Shape Comparative Advantage 36

Incompleteness: Embarrassment Resulting from the Assumption that the World Is Divided into Sovereign States 44

Beyond Incompleteness: The Sham Similarity between Postmarginalist Economics and Physics 51

Condemned to Eternal Infancy: Implications of the Method Inaugurated by Marginalism 56

A Note Relating Ideas in this Book to the Dominant Tradition of Thinking about Comparative Advantage 65

Chapter 3 77

Ideas

In Search of a Point of View 77

Specialization and Discovery:When Competition Inhibits Self-Transformation 78

Politics over Economics:When Restraints on Trade Imply No Surrender to Special Interests or Costly Dogmas 81

Order and Revision:When Free Trade Strengthens the Capacity for Self-Transformation 87

Alternative Free Trade, Alternative Globalizations: The Market Liberated from the Doctrine of the Market 90

The Division of Labor Reimagined and Remade: From the Pin Factory to the Factory of Innovation 95

A Central Conception:Mind against Context 100

Chapter 4 110

Theses

Nature of These Theses 110

The Thesis of Relative Advantage 110

The Thesis of Politics over Economics 138

The Thesis of Self-Revision 150

Chapter 5 166

Proposals

From an Analysis to a Program 166

The World Trade Regime and Its Reconstruction 167

Free Trade Reformed: The Reconciliation of Alternatives 179

Free Trade Reformed: Experimenting with the Form of the Market Economy 185

Free Trade Reformed: Free Movement of Things and Money Chastened, Free Movement of People and Ideas Enhanced 193

Free Trade Reformed: From Wage Slavery to Free Labor 198

The Troubles of Free Trade and the Possibilities of Economics 213

Name Index 223

Subject Index 225

Über Autor(innen)

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.