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U.S. trade policy : history, theory, and the WTO / William A. Lovett, Alfred E. Eckes, Jr. and Richard L. Brinkman.
Lippincott Library HF1455 .L66 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lovett, William Anthony.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World Trade Organization.
- United States--Commercial policy.
- United States.
- Commercial policy.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Other Title:
- United States trade policy
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2004]
- Contents:
- Britain's Free Trade Experiment 3
- Bretton Woods, GATT 1947, and Trade Asymmetries 4
- Dollar Hegemony, Indiscipline, and Euro Challenges 5
- MNCs, Integration Economies, and Sharing Benefits 7
- GATT 1994 and the World Trade Organization 8
- Goals for U.S. Trade Policy 11
- Chapter 2. U.S. Trade History / Alfred E. Eckes Jr. 36
- Products and Partners 36
- Colonial Antecedents 40
- Confederation to Constitution 42
- America First 43
- American System 45
- Cobden's Challenge 47
- Protectionists in Charge 47
- Wilson's Low-Tariff Revolution 51
- Protection Restored 51
- Smoot-Hawley 53
- Secretary Hull's Trade Policy Revolution 55
- Building the Bretton Woods World 58
- Marshall Plan Mentality 61
- GATT and Unreciprocal Trade 63
- Kennedy Round Asymmetries 66
- Overseas Outsourcing 68
- Reacting to Free Riders 69
- Tokyo Round Promises 72
- FTA Blitz 78
- NAFTA Oversell 81
- Uruguay Round "Victory" 83
- Bilateral and Regional FTAs 88
- Perils of Globalization 90
- Chapter 3. Free Trade: Static Comparative Advantage / Richard L. Brinkman 93
- Origins of Free Trade: Theory and Policy 95
- Pure Theory of Trade 101
- Static Comparative Advantage under Siege: Errors and Omissions 105
- Static Versus Dynamic 108
- Chapter 4. Dynamics of Absolute Advantage and Economic Development / Richard L. Brinkman 111
- Structural Transformation: The Secretary-Lawyer Analogy 111
- Dynamics of Economic Development: Concept and Theory 114
- New Theories of Trade: Toward Dynamic Comparative Advantage 119
- Toward Improved Trade Policy 123
- Chapter 5. Rebalancing U.S. Trade / William A. Lovett 130
- Alternative Solutions 132
- Clinton-Perot: A Mandate Not Implemented 142
- Department of Industry, Technology, and Trade (DITT) 145
- Cleaning Up Legal Underbrush 149
- New Realism Versus Holier Than Thou 150
- Teamwork: Labor, Environment, and Consumers 152
- Monitoring and Progress: Three- to Five-Year Transition Periods 155
- Nonaction: Vulnerability and Decline 158
- Sustainable Internationalism for Americans 163
- Recent Trade Bargaining
- Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765613077
- OCLC:
- 52838668
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