In the Versailles publications, for example, the debate over globalization is whether we should pass some corporate written trade deals, or every corporate written trade deal, the debate over health care is whether to subsidize the private insurance industry or do nothing at all, and the debate over economic policy is whether to throw $1 trillion or $10 trillion at the private banks.
To make unionism respectable as a bulwark against radicalism and irresponsible strikes, he encouraged binding written trade agreements and advocated the primacy of national organizations over both local unions and international affiliations.
It got so bad that during one game, a player wrote "Trade Me" on his sneakers.
"A patron saint of the writing trade, of the story-makers, of the grub street international bunch of us".
In a letter to trade unionists, Kendall writes: "Trade unions helped found the Labour party, and if I am elected as leader that link will never be broken.
But Representative Bill Thomas, the California Republican who is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said, "The only workable procedure is to write trade agreements according to current law".
There need to be policies to even up the contest between capital and labour, including writing trade unions back into the script.
A service industry that, in effect, exists to help people write, trade and manage financial claims on future cashflows raced ahead of the real economy, even as the ground beneath it fell away.The industry has defied gravity by using debt, securitisation and proprietary trading to boost fee income and profits.
I wrote "trade" books for a popular audience as I did academic work that would permit me to be awarded tenure as a professor.
But what if -- and here is the third thought experiment -- we could write trade agreements that protect investor rights and help grow trade AND protect the environment, AND honor human rights and labor rights, and raise living standards.
