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Ethics in International Economics
Ethics in International Economics: The WTO, NAFTA, the IMF, and the World Bank. An interview of Michael Kevane, Assistant Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University, conducted by David Perry, Director of Ethics Programs at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, broadcast 30 April 2001 on "Ethics Today," KSCU radio, 103.3 FM. David Perry: The World Trade Organization and the new Free Trade Area of the Americas have become the focus of intense and wide-ranging criticisms by labor unions, environmental activists, and human rights proponents…. The WTO and NAFTA ostensibly promote free trade, but some critics assert that they’re really fronts for large multinational corporations that want to exploit the labor of workers in developing countries and take advantage of weakly enforced regulations on environmental protection and workplace safety.

Full Article: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/wtotext.html


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