1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961133003321

Autore

Ostry Sylvia

Titolo

The post-cold war trading system : who's on first? / / Sylvia Ostry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1997

ISBN

9780226637914

0226637913

9781299104662

1299104665

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Collana

A Century Foundation Book

Disciplina

382

Soggetti

International trade

Commercial policy

International economic integration

United States Commercial policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Twentieth Century Fund book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-285) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One. The Sources of Convergence -- Two. Building the Convergence Club: Technology and Investment -- Three. The GATT House: Termites in the Basement -- Four. The Eighties: Pacific Prelude -- Five. The East Asian Challenge: A New Convergence Club? -- Six. The Uruguay Round: Renewing Multilateralism -- Seven. Building the Post-Cold War Trading System -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

With the end of the Cold War, the search for a new international and economic order has begun. In this comprehensive account, Sylvia Ostry provides a critical analysis of an international trade system in the throes of rapid and far-reaching change. With keen historical awareness, Ostry examines the role of key economic power brokers, particularly the United States, in the reconstruction and reconfiguration of an international economy after World War II. She argues that U.S. policy efforts were so successful that they led to an unprecedented renewal of economic growth, living standards, and education levels in postwar Europe and Japan. Ironically, those same policy successes unintentionally fostered the relative decline of U.S. dominance on the



world trade scene as the reduction of trade and investment barriers prompted friction and conflict between different kinds of capitalist systems. Identifying the historical and legal issues key to postwar trade policy, Ostry has commandingly charted our economic course through the last half of this century and, perhaps, into the next. "Sylvia Ostry knows this subject as few others do, both as a scholar of international trade issues and a major player in the ongoing negotiations that have created the rules of the trade game. The Post-Cold War Trading System is a fine summary of where we've been and where we ought to be going."-Peter Passell, economic scene columnist for The New York Times

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957744803321

Autore

Neusner Jacob <1932->

Titolo

The Routledge dictionary of Judaism / / Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-41485-4

1-138-16726-6

1-134-41486-2

1-280-02480-1

0-203-63391-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 181 p. ) : ill

Collana

Routledge dictionaries

Classificazione

11.20

Altri autori (Persone)

Avery-PeckAlan J <1953-> (Alan Jeffery)

Disciplina

296/.03

Soggetti

Judaism

Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

chapter A -- chapter B -- chapter C C -- chapter D -- chapter E -- chapter F -- chapter G -- chapter H -- chapter I I -- chapter J -- chapter K -- chapter L L -- chapter M -- chapter N -- chapter O -- chapter P -- chapter Q -- chapter R -- chapter S -- chapter T -- chapter U -- chapter V V -- chapter W -- chapter Y -- chapter Z.



Sommario/riassunto

Compiled by two international experts, and with over 600 wide-ranging and informative entries, this dictionary provides the reader with a useful reference aid to all areas of Judaism.