Trade Fetishism: Magical and Materialist Thinking in Global Political Economy [Hardcover]

1. Trade Fetishism; 2. The Seductive Gap in Trade Thinking; 3. Development and Trade: Disavowal and Reciprocity in the Caribbean-EU EPA; 4. Modernizing Trade: Mastery and Foreclosure from NAFTA to the USMCA; 5. Greening Trade: Magical Thinking at the WTO; 6. Trade Futures

Trade Fetishism?argues that trade not only meets material goals, but simultaneously works as a fantasy that seeks to satisfy and sooth our unconscious desires and anxieties.?

This stunning book couldnt be more timelyfor examining todays trade regime at a global moment of economic and tariff instability and warfareor more perspicaciousfor offering shrewd psychoanalytic insights on global trade that political economy by itself is unable to provide. A not-to-be-missed smart, original, and case study-based investigation.

Ilan Kapoor, author of?Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development

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At a time when global trade relations are in turmoil, Gavin Fridell and Patrick Clark offer an avant-garde political economy perspective that shows us how the human psyche models and remodels the perpetual dream of global commerce, and what this means for the politics of trade.?Trade Fetishism?provides a most welcome and highly timely theoretical alternative in a domain of economic theorising that remains mired in an  increasingly anachronistic - orthodoxy. The book will prove helpful to activists, scholars, students and policy-makers who are keen to pluralise trade theory and to build alternative trade futures.

Silke Trommer, co-author of?A Feminist Political Economy of Trade: Beyond Free Trade Feminism

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