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U.S. trade policy : history, theory, and the WTO /

Lovett (Tulane Law School), Eckes (a former commissioner of the U.S. International Commission during the Reagan and Bush I administrations), and Brinkman (international economics, Portland State U.) evaluate the evolution of U.S. trade policy, focusing on the period from the establishment of the Gen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lovett, William Anthony
Otros Autores: Eckes, Alfred E., 1942-, Brinkman, Richard L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Ã2004.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction / William A. Lovett
  • Britain's free trade experiment
  • Bretton Woods, GATT 1947, and trade asymmetries
  • Dollar hegemony, indiscipline, and Euro challenges
  • MNCs, integration economies, and sharing benefits
  • GATT 1994 and the World Trade Organization
  • Goals for U.S. trade policy
  • 2. U.S. trade history / Alfred E. Eckes Jr.
  • Products and partners
  • Colonial antecedents
  • Confederation to constitution
  • America first
  • American system
  • Cobden's challenge
  • Protectionists in charge
  • Wilson's low-tariff revolution
  • Protection restored
  • Smoot-Hawley
  • Secretary Hull's trade policy revolution
  • Building the Bretton Woods world
  • Marshall Plan mentality
  • GATT and unreciprocal trade
  • Kennedy round asymmetries
  • Overseas outsourcing
  • Reacting to free riders
  • Tokyo round promises
  • FTA blitz
  • NAFTA oversell
  • Uruguay round "victory"
  • Bilateral and regional FTAs
  • Perils of globalization
  • 3. Free trade : static comparative advantage / Richard L. Brinkman
  • Origins of free trade : theory and policy
  • Pure theory of trade
  • Static comparative advantage under siege : errors and omissions
  • Static versus dynamic
  • 4. Dynamics of absolute advantage and economic development / Richard L. Brinkman
  • Structural transformation : the secretary-lawyer analogy
  • Dynamics of economic development : concept and theory
  • New theories of trade : toward dynamic comparative advantage
  • Toward improved trade policy
  • 5. Rebalancing U.S. trade / William A. Lovett
  • Alternative solutions
  • Clinton-Perot : a mandate not implemented
  • Department of Industry, Technology, and Trade (DITT)
  • Cleaning up legal underbrush
  • New realism versus holier than thou
  • Teamwork : labor, environment, and consumers
  • Monitoring and progress : three- to five-year transition periods
  • Nonaction : vulnerability and decline
  • Sustainable internationalism for Americans
  • Recent trade bargaining--multilateral, regional and bilateral.