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BL
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989857
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b744227
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Thompson, Paul B.,1951-
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| Title & Author
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The ethics of aid and trade : : U.S. food policy, foreign competition, and the social contract /\ Paul B. Thompson.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 1992.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in philosophy and public policy
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x, 233 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0521414687
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: 9780521414685
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Of cabbages and kings -- 1. The food weapon and the strategic concept of food policy -- 2. The Bumpers Amendment -- 3. Does helping foreign industries violate a basic principle of government? -- 4. International agricultural assistance and the interests of U.S. agriculture -- 5. The trading state and the social contract -- 6. Humanitarianism, hunger, and moral theory -- 7. Morality and the myth of scarcity -- 8. The time has come, the walrus said, to speak of many things.
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This is a book about the principles of U.S. agricultural policy and foreign aid. The traditional military-territorial model of the nation-state defines international duties in terms of protecting citizens' property from foreign threats. Professor Thompson replaces this model with the notion of the trading state, which 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 on world hunger and development. What emerges is a new interpretation of social contract theory that can determine goals for international trade and development policy. The Ethics of Aid and Trade will be of particular interest to political theorists, economists, specialists in international trade and development, and agricultural ethicists.
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Agricultural assistance, American-- Government policy-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Food relief-- Government policy-- Moral and ethical aspects-- United States.
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Produce trade-- Government policy-- Moral and ethical aspects-- United States.
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Food relief-- Government policy-- United States-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Agricultural assistance, American-- government policy
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Agricultural assistance, American-- moral ethical aspects
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Agricultural assistance, American.
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Food relief-- Government policy-- United States.
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Produce trade-- Government policy-- United States.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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363.8/83/091724
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HD9006.T49 1992
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