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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787405403321

Autore

Lovett William Anthony

Titolo

U.S. trade policy : history, theory, and the WTO / / William A. Lovett, Alfred E. Eckes, Jr., and Richard L. Brinkman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-317-45316-6

1-317-45317-4

0-7656-1308-5

1-315-69854-4

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrinkmanRichard L

EckesAlfred E. <1942->

Disciplina

382/.3/0973

Soggetti

United States Commercial policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2004 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""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""; ""Chapter 2. U.S. Trade History""; ""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""; ""Chapter 3. Free Trade: Static Comparative Advantage""

""Origins of Free Trade: Theory and Policy""""Pure Theory of Trade""; ""Static Comparative Advantage under Siege: Errors and Omissions"";



""Static Versus Dynamic""; ""Chapter 4. Dynamics of Absolute Advantage and Economic Development""; ""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""; ""Chapter 5. Rebalancing U.S. Trade""; ""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""; ""Notes and References""; ""Index""; ""About the Authors""

Sommario/riassunto

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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145678203321

Titolo

15th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning : TIME 2008 proceedings : 16-18 June, 2008, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : IEEE Computer Society, 2008

ISBN

9781509084197

1509084193

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : color illustration

Collana

LC science tracer bullet ; ; TB 08-1

Disciplina

005.75/3

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Reasoning

Time

Temporal databases

Computer Science

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Bibliographies.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph