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Trade and the American dream : a social history of postwar trade policy /

In Trade and the American Dream, Susan Aaronson highlights a previously ignored dimension of United States trade policy: public understanding. Focusing on the debate over the three mechanisms designed to govern world trade - the International Trade Organization (ITO), the General Agreement on Tariff...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aaronson, Susan A. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Roth, William V., Jr. (William Victor), 1921-2003 (writer of foreword.), Matsui, Robert T., 1941-2005 (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, ©1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Forewords / William V. Roth, Jr. and Robert Matsui
  • The Roots of Multilateral Trade Policy
  • Linking Jobs to Trade Policy, 1939-1942
  • Gaining Congressional Approval for Multilateral Trade Liberalization, 1943-1945
  • The Planners and the Public, 1943-1946
  • Public Response to the ITO, 1946-1947
  • The ITO, the GATT, and U.S. Trade Policy, 1947-1948
  • Congressional Challenges and Public Apathy toward Trade, 1948-1949
  • Dead on Arrival: The Fate of the ITO, 1948-1951
  • The Rise and Erosion of the Freer Trade Consensus and the Debate over NAFTA, 1949-1994
  • Present at the Creation of the WTO, 1986-1994
  • Conclusion: Democracy and Economic Interdependence.