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Free trade politics, the power of ideas and political economy of European integration

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

“The bourgeoisie… has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted … Continue reading →

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Religion, “free trade” and faithful globalization: producing a sacred vision of the economy

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

Religious leaders and groups can play a crucial role in economic and political life through their discourse; such discourse is a central way that they produce the sacred in the economic realm. This is true across a range of religious … Continue reading →

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Neoliberalism in the Global South: the shift in development strategies

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

Despite the fact that the first substantially neoliberal regime was actually in the far South, the civil-military dictatorship in Chile, neoliberalism is generally attributed to western and developed countries. “Where in the world does Neoliberalism come from? The market agenda … Continue reading →

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How did the East India Company become the most powerful business‬ in history?

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

Exploring trade network dynamics, decision-making processes and organizational context, in an extraordinary Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600–1757 Emily Erikson (Yale University) demonstrates why the English East India Company was a dominant force in the … Continue reading →

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Minilateralism: How Trade, Soft Law and Finance Redefined Economic Statecraft

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

Multilateralism is giving way to minilateralism — argues Chris Brummer (Georgetown University) in his new thought-provoking book Minilateralism How Trade Alliances, Soft Law and Financial Engineering are Redefining Economic Statecraft, that analyzes the global political economy in the post-hegemonic era … Continue reading →

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Continental Crucible: Big ‪‎Business‬, ‪Workers‬ and ‪Unions‬ in the Transformation of ‪North America‬

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

This revealing book by Edur Velasco Arregui and Richard Roman illustrates the ways in which the capitalist classes in Canada, Mexico and the United States used free trade agreements to consolidate their agendas and organize themselves continentally. This study has … Continue reading →

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Noam Chomsky on Adam Smith and “Invisible Hand”

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Oleg Komlik

An extra scene from an interesting documentary American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals (2008/2017). Here, Chomsky explains that the conventional notion of “invisible hand” is mistaken and that though praised by conservatives and mainstream economics, it actually reflects Smith’s … Continue reading →

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The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and Mercosur

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Oleg Komlik

Francesco Duina’s The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and Mercosur offers a compelling new interpretation of the proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) at the end of the twentieth century. Challenging the widespread assumption that RTAs … Continue reading →

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