International Trade and Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage

Christian Barry and Sanjay Reddy

June, 2008
Cloth, 232 pages, 3 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14048-5
$35.00 / £24.00

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. What Is Linkage? Two Propositions

2. Three Types of Linkage, and What Linkage Proponents Must Show

3. What Linkage Opponents Must Show

4. Arguments Against Linkage

5. Ruling Out Linkage Proposals

6. Identifying Linkage Proposals That Meet the Standard Objections—A Constructive Procedure

7. A Sketch of a Linkage System

8. Conclusion

Appendix. Empirical Evidence on the Likely Effects of Improvements in Labor Standards

Commentary by Kyle Bagwell: Economic Theory, WTO Rules, and Linkage

Commentary by Rohini Hensman: Fine-Tuning the Linkage Proposal

Commentary by Robert Goodin: The Ethics of Political Linkage

Commentary by Roberto Mangabeira Unger: The Transformative Imagination and the World Trading System

Reply to Commentators

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Business
• Economics & Finance
• Ethics
• International Affairs
• Political Theory

About the Author

Christian Barry teaches philosophy in the School of Humanities and is a senior research fellow at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University, and his research interests include international ethics, global justice, and the philosophy of action. Sanjay G. Reddy is an assistant professor of economics at Barnard College and at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, and his research interests include development economics, international economics, and economics and philosophy.

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