Business-Managed Democracy

• Introduction

• National Government

• International Coercion

• Privatisation

• The Trade Agenda

• Trade in Services
• GATS
  • Implications
  • Telmex Ruling
  • Offers and Requests
• Early Business Lobbies
  • American Express
  • CSI
• Financial Services
  • Gaining Support
  • Business Lobbying
  • Ongoing Goals
• Business Coalitions
  • British Invisibles/ LOTIS
  • Financial Leaders Group
  • European Services
  • Global Services Network
  • Lobbying Networks
• Business Strategies
  • Targeted Services
  • Front Nations
  • Encouraging Offers
  • Touting Benefits
  • Access
• References


 

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Business-Managed Government

References

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Ahlberg, Brian, 1990, ‘American Express: The Stateless Corporation’, Multinational Monitor, November.

Andrews, Edmund L., 1997, ‘Agreement to Open up World Financial Markets Is Reached’, New York Times, 13 December.

Brittan, Leon, 2000, A Diet of Brussels: The Changing Face of Europe, London, Little, Brown and Company.

Brittan, Leon, 1998, ‘Europe's Prescriptions for the Global Trade Agenda’, European Union, 24 September.

Buxton, Andrew, 1999, 'The European Services Network: Keynote Speech ', Paper presented at the Preparatory Conference for the World Services Congress, The University Club, Washington DC, 2 June.

Chatterjee, Pratap, 2001, ‘Enron: Pulling the Plug on the Global Power Broker’, CorpWatch, 13 December.

Clarke, Tony, 2001, ‘Enron: Washington's Number One Behind-the-Scenes GATS Negotiator’, CorpWatch, 25 October.

‘Europe Forbids Sell-Off Debate’, The Ecologist, March, 200.

Freeman, Harry, 2000, ‘Comments and Discussion’, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services 2000, pp. 453-63.

‘GATS: Undermining Public Services’, Corporate Europe Observer, June, 2001.

Kerneis, Pascal, 2000, 'The Perspective of the European Private Sector in the GATS Negotiations ', Paper presented at the Regional Seminar on Services: ASEAN, Bangkok, Thailand, 27 June.

‘Leaked Confidential Documents Reveal EC's Neoliberal GATS Agenda’, Corporate Europe Observer, May, 2002.

‘MAI Shell Game - IMF’, Public Citizen, 2003.

O'Hare, Dean R., 2002, 'Introductory Remarks ', Paper presented at the Services 2002 Conference, Washington D.C., 5 February.

'Opening World Markets for Services: Towards GATS 2000', European Commission, 2003.

Palast, Gregory, 2001, ‘The WTO's Hidden Agenda’, CorpWatch, 9 November.

Puscas, Darren, 2003, 'Enron-Style Corporate Crime and Privatization ', Ottawa, Polaris Institute, 19 June.

Puscas, Darren, 2002, ‘A Guide to the Enron Collapse: A Few Points for a Clearer Understanding’, Canada, Polaris Institute, 12 February.

Raghavan, Chakravarthi, 1997, ‘Close Encounters at the WTO’, Third World Economics, 16-31 December.

Roberts, Christopher, 2002, 'LOTIS Chairman Stresses Importance of Services Liberalisation', International Financial Services London, 24 October.

Sauvé, Pierre and Robert M. Stern (eds), 2000, GATS 2000:  New Directions in Services Trade Liberalization, Washington D.C., Brookings Institution Press.

Vastine, Robert, 2002, 'Trade Remedy System under the WTO Framework: Functions and Mechanism, the Role of Trade Associations ', Paper presented at the 2002 Annual Conference of the Advisory Committee of the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center and 2002 WTO Forum, Shanghai, 5-7 November.

Vastine, Robert, 1999, ‘Statement of Robert Vastine, President, Coalition of Service Industries’, Senate Senate Finance Committee Subcommittee on International Trade,  21 October 1999

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Wesselius, Erik, 2002, Behind GATS 2000: Corporate Power at Work , Amsterdam: Transnational Institute.

Wesselius, Erik, 2001, ‘Liberalisation of Trade in Services: Corporate Power at Work’, GATSwatch.

WTO Panel, 2004, ‘Mexico - Measures Affecting Telecommunications Services [Edited]’, World Trade Organization, 2 April.

Zumwalt, James P., 1996, ‘Pressure Politics and Free Trade: Influence of the Services Industry on the Uruguay Round ’, National Defense University, 16 December 1996.