Towards a social ecological theory of trade
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The urgent response to the global ecological crisis that governments around the world need to engage in is hindered by current international trade governance, trade agreements, and industrial policies aimed at increasing the flow of goods, services, and capital across borders. This international trade regime is emissions- and material- and impact-intense and tied to climate change, significant land-use change, biodiversity loss, rising social inequalities, and violent market expansion that characterize the intertwined crises of what is often called the Anthropocene. How nations, regions, firms, and communities participate in international and long distance trade must be a site of transformation towards long term social and ecological futurity on a livable planet. Ecological Economics provides a critical lens through which to understand international trade, engages in rigorous research about trade, and is conceptual home to many proposals for a different approach to international trade that would reduce material and energy throughput while increasing well-being. There is, however, not yet a social ecological theory of trade which ties together the normative goals of EE (justice and well being on a livable planet) with emerging Ecological Macroeconomic theory/ies, and research into alternative trade. This research uses critical reviews of the history of economic thought to establish parameters and role for a theory of trade as it relates to macroeconomics, systematic reviews of Ecological Macroeconomic theorizing, and systematic reviews of the fair trade and alternative trade research in Ecological Economics. This research further develops an ontological, epistemological, and axiological articulation of the normative goals of EE as embodied by the emerging concept of the Ecozoic, a counter/post-Anthropocene narrative, to use as a framework with which to weave together a transdisciplinary social ecological theory of trade. From this research emerged a theory of Translocal Commons, which re-frames international trade within broader provisioning systems as a process of translocal exchange that provisions public goods as integral parts of meeting individual needs, and that can contribute to a livable ecological futurity. A theory of Translocal Commons illuminates trade practices as commons-depleting, commons-reproducing, and commons-defending and allows for protection of the global and local commons to be centred in trade governance. A theory of trade was found to historically represent the normative application of the macroeconomic theories of a given economic discipline, and a theory of Translocal Commons expresses a transdisciplinary pluralism by embedding these macroeconomic components of ecological economics into governance practices. This theory work weaves together the work of ecological economics to contribute to a new foundation for trade policy transitions that allow for multi-scalar climate action and transformation to post-growth global economies
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".