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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe,
Ã2004.
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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.