Free Trade Reimagined

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ISBN: 9780691145884 | 0691145881
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Copyright: 1/24/2010

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Free Trade Reimagined begins by criticizing the heart of the emerging global economy-the theory and practice of tree trade. However, Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not advocate protectionism. Instead, he attacks and revises the terms on which the traditional debate between free traders and protectionists has been joined. His argument about free trade serves as a starting point for both a reorientation of economic analysis and a reinterpretation of the world division of labor.

Themes and Scope of this Book	p. 1
Troubles: The Enigmas of Free Trade	p. 7
Familiar Problems, Disturbing Solutions	p. 7
The History of Free Trade and Protection: Subversive Lessons	p. 15
The Authority of Free Trade Doctrine: Reasons Amounting to Objections	p. 20
Troubles: The Incompleteness of Comparative Advantage	p. 25
The Doctrine of Comparative Advantage	p. 25
Incompleteness: Indeterminacy Resulting from Failure to Justify Unique Assignments of Comparative Advantage	p. 28
Incompleteness: Confusion Resulting from Uncertainty about the Limits of Our Power Collectively to Shape Comparative Advantage	p. 36
Incompleteness: Embarrassment Resulting from the Assumption that the World Is Divided into Sovereign States	p. 44
Beyond Incompleteness: The Sham Similarity between Postmarginalist Economics and Physics	p. 51
Condemned to Eternal Infancy: Implications of the Method Inaugurated by Marginalism	p. 56
A Note Relating Ideas in this Book to the Dominant Tradition of Thinking about Comparative Advantage	p. 65
Ideas	p. 77
In Search of a Point of View	p. 77
Specialization and Discovery: When Competition Inhibits Self-Transformation	p. 78
Politics over Economics: When Restraints on Trade Imply No Surrender to Special Interests or Costly Dogmas	p. 81
Order and Revision: When Free Trade Strengthens the Capacity for Self-Transformation	p. 87
Alternative Free Trade, Alternative Globalizations: The Market Liberated from the Doctrine of the Market	p. 90
The Division of Labor Reimagined and Remade: From the Pin Factory to the Factory of Innovation	p. 95
A Central Conception: Mind against Context	p. 100
Theses	p. 110
Nature of These Theses	p. 110
The Thesis of Relative Advantage	p. 110
The Thesis of Politics over Economics	p. 138
The Thesis of Self-Revision	p. 150
Proposals	p. 166
From an Analysis to a Program	p. 166
The World Trade Regime and Its Reconstruction	p. 167
Free Trade Reformed: The Reconciliation of Alternatives	p. 179
Free Trade Reformed: Experimenting with the Form of the Market Economy	p. 185
Free Trade Reformed: Free Movement of Things and Money Chastened, Free Movement of People and Ideas Enhanced	p. 193
Free Trade Reformed: From Wage Slavery to Free Labor	p. 198
The Troubles of Free Trade and the Possibilities of Economics	p. 213
Name Index	p. 223
Subject Index	p. 225
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