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	<title>e-IR &#187; Andrew Pickering</title>
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		<title>Fairtrade Under Academic Scrutiny – What Can Critical Research Be Good for?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A one-day seminar at the University  of Exeter, 1st October 2009
Ethical consumption has been endorsed early on by academic critics of consumer culture. It was &#8211; and to an extent still is &#8211; seen as an alternative to de-politicised and largely unsustainable consumer capitalism. Alternative trading organisations were seen establishing new links of solidarity between Northern consumers and Southern producers based on equitable exchange and mutual respect.
The impressively successful promotion of fairtrade and organic goods in mainstream retail outlets, however, meant deeper involvement with the institutions of the global market and with established players in it. Many academic commentators turned their critical attention to &#8220;mainstreaming&#8221;, to fairtrade marketing and on the effects on producer communities.
This does not mean that critical researchers have turned against ethical consumption. For the most part they remain sympathetic to and supportive of the project of bringing moral considerations back into the economy&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The return of the bancor? Chinese ascendancy and the global monetary system</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Pickering</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global financial crisis has so far failed to yield a second Bretton Woods agreement, as some had hoped, but recent calls for a new global reserve currency are beginning to excite the minds of politicians, financiers and scholars alike. Taking inspiration from the 'bancor' currency proposed by John Maynard Keynes in 1944, the governor of the People's Bank of China suggested last month that the global monetary system would benefit from revamping the role of the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights (SDRs) to create a uniform global reserve currency.]]></description>
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		<title>Global financial crisis: disaster or opportunity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Pickering</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The financial and economic events of the last few weeks have shocked many of us. Indeed, they have shocked us out of our complacency and made apparent the urgent need to reform the financial sector. But more than that, there is a sense that it may now be possible to seize this moment as an opportunity to go much further.]]></description>
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