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Title The market or the public domain? : global governance and the asymmetry of power / edited by Daniel Drache
Published London ; New York : Routledge, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 394 pages) : illustrations
Series Innis centenary series: governance and change in the global era
Innis centenary series: governance and change in the global era
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 The return of the public domain after the triumph of markets; 2 Reinventing Gladstone?; 3 The re-constitution of the public domain; 4 Policy domain or public domain at a time of globalization; 5 The contested competence of NGOs and business in public life; 6 Social disability and the public good; 7 The informational commons at risk; 8 Avoiding the tragedy of the commons: greening governance through the market or the public domain; 9 Human security in the global era; 10 Public goods: taking the concept into the twenty-first century
11 The public good versus private interests and the global financial and monetary system12 Regionalism; 13 Global markets and social legitimacy; 14 Democratizing globalism; 15 Saving the social bond and recovering the public domain; Index
Summary Examining the powerful idea of the return, reconstitution and redeployment of the public domain in a post-Seattle and post-Washington consensus world order, this innovative book is the most forward-looking and comprehensive examination of the need to rethink the tenants of global free trade. In the past two decades, countries have focused on broadening and guaranteeing market access, and as the pendulum swings back for the market, the issue of investing in the public domain becomes a priority. The authors believe that devising new institutions of governance for a globalizing world requires fund
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject World Trade Organization.
SUBJECT World Trade Organization fast
Subject Commercial policy.
Democracy.
Industrial policy.
Capitalism.
Free trade.
International trade.
Commercial law.
International law.
Democracy
democracy.
international law.
Capitalism
Commercial law
Commercial policy
Democracy
Free trade
Industrial policy
International law
International trade
Form Electronic book
Author Drache, Daniel
LC no. 2001018071
ISBN 0203996704
9780203996706
0415254698
9780415254694
9780415254700
0415254701
9786610111756
6610111758