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Indlæser... Hidden Agendas: What We Need to Know about the TPPA (BWB Texts)af Jane Kelsey
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'Forget the label ""free trade agreement"". The TPPA, under negotiation between New Zealand, the USA and ten other countries, is a direct assault on our right to decide our own future.' In this hard-hitting BWB Text, Professor Jane Kelsey picks apart the current negotiations surrounding the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) and comes to some disturbing conclusions. Such a treaty, she says in this new work, has little credible economic rationale but could have potentially dangerous effects on our ability to decide for ourselves how we address the economic, environmental, soc No library descriptions found. |
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In other words, if passed, it would represent a substantial loss of national sovereignty and democratic oversight over law-making and public policy. I don't like that idea, so I'm glad NZ academic Jane Kelsey has written this concise study. (I found her previous book on the subject, "No Ordinary Deal", to be too dry and academic - this one is written for the general reader.)
"Hidden Agendas" is well worth reading if, like me, you are concerned about the corporate/security State's increasing encroachment on people's economic, political and civil rights. ( )