Вопрос № 1029311 - Английский язык
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1. Heterodox economists also criticize the textbooks’ treatment of international trade for de-emphasizing the geopolitical context of free trade rhetoric. Trade patterns and other international economic relations have always been deeply influenced by geopolitical factors, exemplified by colonialism, persistent threats of military or covert interventions over economic issues, and the use of foreign aid as a lever for structuring trade relations. This continues today.
2. The deposit of Saudi oil revenues in U.S. banks and the Saudis’ moderation of OPEC price increases, for example, reflect geopolitical forces (such as our military help in maintaining the Saudi regime) as much as market forces. One of the hidden pressures for NAFTA similarly involved U.S. government efforts to gain privileged access for U.S. firms and financial interests to Mexican oil. The latter has been insulated from foreign ownership by Mexican law.
3. The recent push for a neoliberal version of «free trade» (which, for example, often strives to protect intellectual property rights much more vigorously than labor rights) is as laden with nationalist geopolitical agendas as past global trading orders. It is also just as laden with the objectives of private corporations and economic interests in the host nations pushing different policies.
(Steven Mark Cohn : Reintroducing macroeconomics (a critical approach). – M.E. Sharp. Inc., 2007. – P. 208).
Choose the correct summary of the text.
1. Heterodox economists also criticize the textbooks’ treatment of international trade for de-emphasizing the geopolitical context of free trade rhetoric. Trade patterns and other international economic relations have always been deeply influenced by geopolitical factors, exemplified by colonialism, persistent threats of military or covert interventions over economic issues, and the use of foreign aid as a lever for structuring trade relations. This continues today.
2. The deposit of Saudi oil revenues in U.S. banks and the Saudis’ moderation of OPEC price increases, for example, reflect geopolitical forces (such as our military help in maintaining the Saudi regime) as much as market forces. One of the hidden pressures for NAFTA similarly involved U.S. government efforts to gain privileged access for U.S. firms and financial interests to Mexican oil. The latter has been insulated from foreign ownership by Mexican law.
3. The recent push for a neoliberal version of «free trade» (which, for example, often strives to protect intellectual property rights much more vigorously than labor rights) is as laden with nationalist geopolitical agendas as past global trading orders. It is also just as laden with the objectives of private corporations and economic interests in the host nations pushing different policies.
(Steven Mark Cohn : Reintroducing macroeconomics (a critical approach). – M.E. Sharp. Inc., 2007. – P. 208).
Choose the correct summary of the text.
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- I’ve read the passage from the monograph «Reintroducing macroeconomics» written by Steven Mark Cohn. The extract deals with the problems of treatment of international trade. Economists consider that it’s influenced by geopolitical factors. By the way, international economic relations have always been influenced by geopolitical factors. To make a long story short many geopolitical factors continue to influence today. As you know, neoliberal economists support free trade, that doesn’t protect labor rights, this push for a neoliberal version is laden with nationalist geopolitical agendas as past global trading orders.
- The extract I would like to speak about is from the monograph «Reintroducing macroeconomics» written by Steven Mark Cohn. The main idea of the extract is to reveal such problems as influence of geopolitical forces (for instance, colonialism, persistent threats of military or covert interventions over economic issues, and the use of foreign aid as a lever for structuring trade relations) on trade patterns and other international economic relations. In this regard it is said that this continues today. It should be taken into account that neoliberal version of «free trade» often strives to protect intellectual property rights much more vigorously than labor ones. The passage also indicates reflection of geopolitical forces (such as military help) as much as market forces in the case of the deposits of Saudi oil revenues in US banks.
- The extract I am going to speak about is from the monograph «Reintroducing macroeconomics» written by Steven Mark Cohn. It is about such problems as geopolitical forces’ influence (colonialism, persistent threats of military or covert interventions over economic issues, and the foreign aid’s use as a lever for structuring trade relations) on trade patterns and other international economic relations. This continues today. The neoliberal version of «free trade» often strives to protect intellectual property rights much more vigorously than labor rights. The author also speaks about reflection of geopolitical forces (such as military help) as much as market forces in the case of the deposits of Saudi oil revenues in US banks.
- Heterodox economists criticize treatment of international trade by textbooks. They think that books de-emphasize the geopolitical factors. International economic relations have always been influenced by these factors. What are these factors? It’s not a secret that they are colonialism, persistent threats of military or covert interventions over economic issues, and so on. According to the text, neoliberal version of free trade wants to protect intellectual property rights more than labor rights. It is charged with the objectives of private corporations and economic interests in the host nations pushing different policies.
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На вопрос ответил(а): Анастасия Степанова, 13 Ноябрь 2020 в 17:31