Serving Whose Interests?: The Political Economy of Trade in Services Agreements

by Jane Kelsey

Overview

Serving Whose Interests? explores the political economy of trade in services agreements from a critical legal perspective. The controversy surrounding the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and its variants at the regional and bilateral levels can, it is argued, be seen as a clash between two paradigms. For most of the twentiet

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134061211
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/02/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	905 KB

About the Author

Jane Kelsey

Table of Contents

Introduction: Taking Services to Market 1. Reading the GATS as Ideology 2. How the GATS was Won (and Lost?) 3. Trade-related Development 4. The Illusion of Public Services 5. Ruling the Services Infrastructure 6. Trade in People 7. Minds and Markets 8. Dominion Over the Earth 9. Energy Wars; 10. Serving Whose Interests?