A Theory of Regulatory Protection -- Introduction -- A Theory of Global Firms and Local Regulation -- Evidence -- Determinants of Regulatory Barriers to Trade -- Regulatory Preferences in the Chemical Industry -- Regulatory Preferences in the Food Industry -- Institutional Design -- The Design...

"This work by the distinguished Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia explores new dimensions of super-exploitation in a context of the structural crisis of capitalism and imperialism. Steeped in a new generation of radical dependency theory and informed by the legacy of his own mentor, the...