Gaius Publius — TPP is a secret Obama trade agreement that will trump national sovereignty

I’ve been saying for a while that the three big battles with second-term Obama are to oppose:

• Social insurance benefit cuts (the “Grand Bargain”)
 
• Keystone tar-carrying pipeline

• The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the next big NAFTA-style “trade” agreement

This continues our focus on Obama’s TPP.

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TPP is a secret Obama trade agreement that will trump national sovereignty
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See also Dani Rodrick, The inescapable trilemma of the world economy

Sometimes simple and bold ideas help us see more clearly a complex reality that requires nuanced approaches.  I have an "impossibility theorem" for the global economy that is like that. It says that democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full.