Beyond WTO: Social Market Economy and Sustainable Development

Author: Lin Zhiqin
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Mr. Lin Zhiqin's book "Beyond WTO—Social Market Economy and Sustainable Development" takes globalization as the background and sustainable development as the main thread, boldly innovating and proposing a new approach beyond WTO, which is a breakthrough in WTO research. "Beyond WTO" includes: self-transcendence of WTO, behavioral transcendence of WTO member states, and transcendence of management system and institutions. It is divided into two aspects: First, the positive experiences and practices of some countries, such as Germany's pursuit of an ecological social market economy, are better than WTO and must be absorbed and learned by WTO rules; second, WTO member states, in order to obtain or protect their own interests, take advantage of the space provided by executing WTO rules and provisions to implement transcendence of WTO rules and provisions. The former is indirect transcendence, and the latter is direct transcendence. This book takes indirect transcendence as the main thread, that is, it constructs the entire book around the pursuit of sustainable development.