Ricardo's gauntlet
Subtitle: economic fiction and the flawed case for free trade
By: Vishaal Kishore
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781783082995
Subjects: Comparative advantage (International trade); Free trade
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Ricardo's gauntlet and the case for free trade; title: Exploring the case for free trade : unexpected twists in a simple story; title: The tale of international trade's invisible hand; title: Clockwork production and the origin-myths of specialization; title: And they lived happily ever after : fictions of being better off and stories of what should be; title: Conclusion by way of ideologiekritik : fiction and rationalization.