This book is an attempt to set the record stratight, and not just about trade, as the title suggest, but about several areas in which economists could have offered a more balanced, principled discussion. The book brings together much of my recent popular and nontechnical work on globalization, growth, democracy, politics, and the discipline of economics itself. The material that follows has bee…
This analysis of how multi level networked governance has superseded the liberal system of interdependent states focuses on the role of law in mediating power and shows how lawyers have shaped the main features of capitalism, especially the transnational corporation. Its covers the main institutions regulating the world economy, including the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO and myriad other bodies…