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The Ethics of Aid and Trade: US Food Policy, Foreign Competition, and the Social Contract

By Paul B. Thompson

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0521414687, 9780521414685
LCC
HD9006 .T49 1992
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6225478 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy
Pages
245\246
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The traditional military-territorial model of the nation state defines international duties in terms of protecting citizens' property from foreign threats. In this book about the principles of the U.S. agricultural policy and foreign aid, Professor Thompson replaces this model with the notion of the trading state that sees its role in terms of the establishment of international institutions that stabilize and facilitate cultural and intellectual, as well as commercial exchanges between nations. The argument focuses on protectionist challenges to foreign aid and development assistance programs, and engages with the views of a variety of economists, commodity organizations, and philosophers on world hunger and development. What emerges is a new interpretation of social contract theory that can determine goals for international trade and development policy.

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