----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org>
> I don't buy that this is a sell-out. I think the report was distortng and
> sets out to pit Oxfam against other groups, while downplaying the extremely
> harsh critique of First World countries. Oxfam made the absolutely right on
> point that the US and Europe are hypocrites on the issue of trade,
> advocating the dropping of trade barriers in developing nations, while
> keeping up trade barriers in crucial markets like agriculture where those
> developing nations would benefit most from global trade.
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For an interesting piece that looks at the boundaries and interstices of trade policy, industrial organization and corporate governance with an eye towards democracy:
< http://www.linstitute.org/papers/1.pdf >
Discussion Paper 1: Strategic trade policy reconsidered: national rivalry vs free trade vs international competition. Date: 1997 Author(s): Keith Cowling & Roger Sugden More recent version published as: Cowling, Keith. and Sugden, Roger. (1998). "Strategic trade policy reconsidered: national rivalry vs free trade vs international cooperation", Kyklos, 51, pp.339-357.