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Tables of Contents for The Free Trade Adventure
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables and Figures
viii
 
Preface
ix
 
Abbreviations
xii
 
Part One: GATTing a New World Order
1
263
Introduction
3
4
The greatest agreement in history?
The Spirit of the Age?
7
12
The Free Trade Adventure and the end of history
The new model free trade agreement
8
2
Trade theory and protectionist plots
10
5
GATT, globalism and the end of history
15
4
How We Got GATT
19
15
A mildly heretical history of trade agreements
Trade treaties for everyone
21
7
The GATTing of wisdom
28
3
The organisation that wasn't
31
2
Conclusion
33
1
The Fall and Rise of GATT
34
15
Background of the Uruguay Round
The fall of the house of GATT
34
5
GATT is dead!
39
2
Long live GATT
41
4
To Punte del'Este and back
45
3
Conclusion
48
1
Towards a GATT-fearing World
49
28
The results of the Uruguay Round
The Uruguay Round in brief
49
4
Ta ta to tariffs (almost)
53
4
Away with all loopholes
57
8
Down with teachnical barriers
65
2
TRIMmed at the edges
67
2
TRIPping the information revolution
69
2
The getting of GATS
71
1
Of procurement and other matters
72
1
Lifting the FOGS
73
3
Conclusion
76
1
There Goes the Neighbourhood!
77
30
The regional Free Trade Adventure
Keeping it in the family
77
6
The kiwi lies down with the kangaroo
83
3
Living in a Pacific Basin
86
3
The very model of a modern RTA
89
5
The disunited union
94
2
Regionalism versus multilateralism
96
2
Conclusion
98
3
Part Two: Problems and Critiques of the Uruguay Round's New World Order
Introduction
101
6
Putting the fear of GATT into them
Doctrine and Heresy
107
27
Two centuries of the free trade debate
Invisible hand and visible doctrine
108
3
A doctrine made for heretics?
111
1
Orthodox arguments
111
3
Radical arguments
114
11
Non-economic arguments
125
7
Conclusion
132
2
The Best Thing since Sliced Bread?
134
17
Benefits and hidden costs of the Uruguay Round
The politics of estimating benefits
134
2
Lies, damned lies, and models
136
8
How much does free trade cost?
144
5
Conclusion
149
2
Structural Change for Whom?
151
23
Structural impacts of the Uruguay Round and beyond
Structural changes for everyone
152
4
There, but for dirty tariffication, go I
156
5
Our brand-new international division of labour
161
6
Thus spake the market
167
5
Conclusion
172
2
At Whose Service?
174
19
Services and intellectual property in the Uruguay Round
The rise and rise of services
174
2
The guts of GATTS
176
3
The trouble with services
179
8
How intellectual is property?
187
4
Conclusion
191
2
Greening the GATT or GATTing the Green?
193
21
Environment and standards in the Uruguay Round
How green is our GATT?
193
2
Trading the environment
195
1
Something's fishy in the state of GATT
196
3
GATT versus green or GATTing the green?
199
8
Race to the top or bottom?
207
6
Conclusion
213
1
The Perils of Globalism
214
25
The WTO in the new world order
The birth of a global bureaucracy
214
6
An awakening giant?
220
10
Onward to globalism
230
7
Conclusion
237
2
Is There Life after GATT?
239
25
Alternatives to the Free Trade Adventure
Managed Trade---a better master?
240
10
Fair Trade---for a more equitable world
250
5
Self-reliant Trade---a chance to be oneself
255
4
Another world order
259
4
Conclusion
263
1
Conclusion
264
5
Postscript
269
25
In Pursuit of the Global Millennium
The WTO---policeman or postman?
270
10
Towards a Millennium Round?
280
8
Free trade and globalisation---an end to history?
288
6
Glossary
294
5
Notes
299
22
Bibliography
321
11
Index
332