Ethics of Aid and Trade U. S. Food Policy, Foreign Competition, and the Social Contract

Name: Ethics of Aid and Trade U. S. Food Policy, Foreign Competition, and the Social Contract
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ISBN: 9780511890567

ISBN-10: 0511890567

ISBN-13: 9780511890567

Edition: N/A

Authors: Paul B. Thompson

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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…

Book details

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/4/2011
Binding: E-Book
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction: of cabbages and kings



The food weapon and the strategic concept of food policy



The Bumpers Amendment



Does helping foreign industries violate a basic principle of government?



International agricultural assistance and the interests of US agriculture



The trading state and the social contract



Humanitarianism, hunger, and moral theory



Morality and the myth of scarcity



The time has come, the walrus said, to speak of many thing


Notes


References


Index