LEADER 03980nam 2200661 a 450 001 996211815903316 005 20210429234424.0 010 $a1-282-08700-2 010 $a9786612087004 010 $a1-4008-2785-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400827855 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756274 035 $a(EBL)445561 035 $a(OCoLC)331083082 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000158146 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11166117 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158146 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10145183 035 $a(PQKB)10201757 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36325 035 $a(DE-B1597)446878 035 $a(OCoLC)979578587 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400827855 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445561 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284033 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208700 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445561 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756274 100 $a20070424d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFree trade reimagined$b[electronic resource] $ethe world division of labor and the method of economics /$fRoberto Mangabeira Unger 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-14588-1 311 $a0-691-13429-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tThemes and Scope of this Book --$tChapter 1. Troubles: The Enigmas of Free Trade --$tChapter 2. Troubles: The Incompleteness of Comparative Advantage --$tChapter 3. Ideas --$tChapter 4. Theses --$tChapter 5. Proposals --$tThe Troubles of Free Trade and the Possibilities of Economics --$tName Index --$tSubject Index 330 $aFree 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 realistic and more revealing of hidden possibilities for transformation than are the established forms of economics. One message of the book is that we need not choose between accepting and rejecting globalization; we can have a different globalization. Traditional free trade doctrine rests on shaky empirical and theoretical ground. Unger takes a new approach to show when international trade is likely to be useful or harmful to the socially inclusive economic growth that every nation wants. Another message is 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 just as important as freedom to exchange goods on the basis of those institutions. Free Trade Reimagined ranges broadly within and outside economics. Presenting technical issues in plain language, it appeals to the general reader. It puts a disciplined imagination in the service of rebellion against the dictatorship of no alternatives that characterizes life and thought today. 606 $aFree trade 606 $aGlobalization$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aFree trade. 615 0$aGlobalization$xEconomic aspects. 676 $a382/.71 686 $a83.42$2bcl 700 $aUnger$b Roberto Mangabeira$0143449 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996211815903316 996 $aFree trade reimagined$91942440 997 $aUNISA