Links

Economics

• Professor Vesa Kanninen (Helsinki University): Työ ei lopu
• Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report 2001
• Professor Erkki Koskela (Helsinki University):Työllisyys ja talouspolitiikka (PDF)
• Professor Erkki Koskela (Helsinki University):Työllisyys ja talouspolitiikka (PDF)
  One's views on globalization ought to be based on facts and real causal relationships instead of fantasies or urban legends. Professor Erkki Koskela's site boasts up-to-date viewpoints into the current Finnish situation. The site is in Finnish.
• Professor Pertti Haaparanta (HKKK): Professori Maailmanpyörä 3/2000—Globaaliin rauhaan
• The report of an expert panel on the Tobin tax
• The report "Globalisaatio ja Suomi", on how to world is growing tighter
• Klas Eklund is an influential Swedish economist, critical of the Tobin tax. Eklund takes part in the Motattac-movement.
  Klas Eklund's homesite
• Klas Eklund: Tobinskatten: Ett medel söker sitt mål (PDF)
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Articles

• U.S. Trade Issues
• Freedom to trade: Refuting the New Protectionism
• Trade, Jobs, and Manufacturing: Why (Almost All) U.S. Workers Should Welcome Imports
• Free Trade and Human Rights: The Moral Case for Engagement
• Competitive Liberalization and Global Free Trade: a Vision for the Early 21th Century (Institute for International Economics)
• The Priceless Boons of Global Free Trade
• Enemies of the WTO—Bogus arguments against the World Trade Organization
• In Praise of Cheap Labor—Bad jobs at bad wages are better than no jobs at all
• Professor J Bradford DeLong (University of California at Berkeley): "Globalisation" and "Neoliberalism"
• Economist
• A Radical Agenda for the Millennium Round
• A New Agenda for European Agriculture: A Radical Proposal
• Centre for the New Europe: EU barriers kill

Organizations, institutes and research institutions in economics and economic policy

Inter-governmental economic organizations

• United Nations
• OECD—Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
• WTO—World Trade Organization
• International Trade Centre
• Trade & Development Centre
• The International Policy Council on Agriculture Food and Trade
• The World Bank Group
• IMF—International Monetary Fund
• UNCTAD—United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Pro-freedom organizations and institutes

• CounterAttac—an international pro-freedom network, which DEFENS is a part of
  • CounterAttac's plead for a more open world
  • CounterAttac
  • Mod-Attac Danmark
  • MotAttac Norge
  • MotAttac Sverige
  • CounterProtest
• Amnesty International, Finland
• A World Connected
• Freedom House
• Freedom to Trade
• CNE, Centre for the New Europe
• Consumers for World Trade
• Free Trade Youth Australia
• Frihandel
• Global Business Research Institute
• Globalia
• The Grassroots Free Market
• Tradepeace
• The Finnish Group of the Helsinki-Alliance
• Human Rights Watch
• Ihmisoikeusliitto
• The New Zealand Trade Liberalisation Network
• Seta
• Worldgrowth.org

Anti-freedom coalitions

Most of these groups only trample on a limited part of human human rights. Representatives of these groups always think that their ends are important enough to justify the means. DEFENS opposes all infringements of human rights, regardless of the motive.

• ATTAC
• Anti-fascist Action—AFA
• Eläinten Vapautusrintama (ALF)
• Front National
• Hizbollah
• Suomi nousee - kansa yhdistyy rp(Isänmaallinen Kansallis-Liitto)
• Isänmaallinen Oikeisto
• Kominform International
• Kommunistinen Työväenpuolue
• Marxilainen Työväenliitto
• Peoples' Global Action (AGP/PGA)
• Suomen Sisu
• Sosialistiliitto
• Sosialistinen vaihtoehto
• Suomen Kommunistinen puolue
• Valkohaalarit
• Vapaan Suomen Liitto
• Vastavalta
• Virtuaalinen itsehallinnollinen keskus