2006
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.167836
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Free Trade and Freedom

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“…I contribute to these studies and the anthropology of business in three main ways. Firstly, I examine the rarely considered subject of free trade from the perspective of elites (Shore and Nugent 2002) engaged or implicated in the making of trade policy as opposed to "local" people who are affected by free trade (Gledhill 1995, Gutmann 1998, Hewamanne 2008, Pearson 2013, Slocum 2006. This approach involves "studying up" (Nader 1974) in order to understand how power is produced through trade policy.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…I contribute to these studies and the anthropology of business in three main ways. Firstly, I examine the rarely considered subject of free trade from the perspective of elites (Shore and Nugent 2002) engaged or implicated in the making of trade policy as opposed to "local" people who are affected by free trade (Gledhill 1995, Gutmann 1998, Hewamanne 2008, Pearson 2013, Slocum 2006. This approach involves "studying up" (Nader 1974) in order to understand how power is produced through trade policy.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…"I wouldn't work more for you," he reasoned. As I explained in my book (Slocum, 2006), he was signaling that as an employee, he wouldn't apply himself the way he would for his own business. He had more incentive, he said, to invest himself in work on his tiny farm, even with his low returns, because it was work of his own organizing, potential profiteering, and self-advancement.…”
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