DEC 7, 2006 • Podcast
Can and Should Trade Be Used to Promote Human Rights, Fairness? Part 3
Christian Barry sketches a theoretical framework for what an account of fair trade would look like and suggests what progressive governments might do to ensure ...
DEC 7, 2006 • Podcast
Can and Should Trade Be Used to Promote Human Rights, Fairness? Part 2
Andrew Kuper discusses non-state actors as part of a new balance of powers. Kuper offers alternative methods--through demonstration rather than remonstration--for dealing with problems associated ...
DEC 7, 2006 • Podcast
Reconciling Business Ethics Approaches
Rodin discusses how private businesses can reconcile the tensions between the stake-holder approach and the shareholder approach.
DEC 7, 2006 • Podcast
Global Institutions and the Role of Resources
Thomas Pogge analyzes the increase in global inequality and asserts that global factors, as well as local factors, help explain differential success. He focuses on ...
DEC 7, 2006 • Podcast
A Critical Perspective on the Natural Resource Curse
Sanjay Reddy offers a skeptical view on the association in economic literature of natural resource export dependence and low economic growth.
DEC 7, 2006 • Podcast
Fairness and Export Subsidies in Global Trade
Mathias Risse talks about how fairness issues arise around export subsidies and concludes that, from a domestic policy point of view, subsidies are similar to ...
DEC 7, 2006 • Podcast
Coherence, Sanctions, and Human Rights Objectives
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr focuses on human rights obligations across borders and the problem of sanctions as the instrument for human rights objectives.
DEC 7, 2006 • Podcast
Global Civil Society Mechanisms for Creating Fairer Trade
Michael Conroy argues that while the multilateral trade regime is not designed for fair, moral, or sustainable trade, global civil society has created mechanisms that ...