Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge

Gebundenes Buch

Ttip

The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Beschreibung

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and job creation; claims that are wholeheartedly rejected by its critics, who regard TTIP as a direct assault on workers' rights, health and safety standards and public services. In this incisive analysis, Gabriel Siles-Brugge and Ferdi de Ville scrutinize the claims made by TTIP's cheerleaders and scaremongers to reveal a far more nuanced picture behind the headlines. TTIP will not provide an economic 'cure-all', nor will it destroy the European welfare state in one fell swoop. Thanks to unprecedented levels of protest and debate around TTIP, however, neoliberal trade negotiations are well and truly back in the spotlight. In this respect, TTIP could well prove to be a 'game-changer' - just not in the way imagined by its backers.

Autor

Ferdi De Ville is Assistant Professor in Politics at Ghent University Gabriel Siles-Brügge is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781509501014
• ISBN-10: 1509501010
• Artikelnr.: 42835979

Rezensionen

"This essential study should be read by anyone who cares about democracy and the sovereignty of parliaments. If you care, you should understand, and there is no better means of understanding than reading this book."
George Monbiot

"A balanced and informative account of the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and its implications for the economy and society. This book will be a valuable resource for anyone trying to assess the TTIP with open eyes."
Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research

"This in-depth, systematic and sober analysis - deprived of any polemics - brilliantly demystifies the mega-trade deal. It is by far the most advanced piece of political economic thinking on TTIP to date."
Pierre Defraigne, Executive Director, College of Europe Foundation

"The TTIP has been hailed as Europe's growth strategy out of the economic crisis. The critics meanwhile deride it as a job-killing machine that will serve the interests only of U.S. multinationals. This useful and informative book brings the debate down to earth. It shows that both sides overstate their case, while underlining the huge uncertainty that exists over likely outcomes. It concludes that the treaty's main impact will be to reinforce an existing trend whereby trade goals are increasingly narrowing the space for the articulation of domestic rules and regulations."
Dani Rodrik, Institute for Advanced Study