This paper focuses on the post-war process of creation of a global trading system and integration of world trade. As the former came into being, multilateral trade liberalization became an on-going feature of the global economy facilitating international trade, consequently importance of international trade in the global economy increased dramatically. Since the mid-1980s, mindset of policy mak...

Abstract As part of the roundtable, “Ethics and Future Global Food System,” this essay examines how key decisions within global system food production are shaped by organization political economy. The understanding economy follows standard definitions that focus on dominant market practices institutional structures which those embedded. I identify examples policies structurally impair ability s...