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"Building on his International Economics, Vol. 1; Professor Gandolfo has produced a completely rewritten and restructured book where both orthodox and new approaches to trade theory and policy are exhaustively dealt with. Current research topics (e. g., strategic trade policy, endogenous growth and international trade, North-South trade, economic geography models, globalization and core-periphery patterns) are also treated, and their mathematical...

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. "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...

After seven long years of economic malaise, it is clear that something has gone awry in Japan. Unless Japan undertakes sweeping reform, official forecasts now warn, growth will steadily dwindle. How could the world's most acclaimed economic miracle have stumbled so badly? As this important book explains, the root of the problem is that Japan is still mired in the structures, policies, and mental habits of the 1950s-1960s. Four decades ago while in...

Despite the passage of NAFTA and other recent free trade victories in the United States, former U.S. trade official Alfred Eckes warns that these developments have a dark side. Opening America's Market offers a bold critique of U.S. trade policies, concentrating on the evolution of those policies over the last sixty years and placing them within a broad historical perspective. While many believe the United States rose to world leadership on the strength...

What are the key foreign economic policy issues facing the United States in the second half of this decade? How can the administration and Congress meet the economic challenges that lie ahead? This new book analyzes the dramatic importance of the world economy to both the domestic prosperity and overall foreign policy of the United States, describes the new global environment (e.g. the rise of China as a global economic superpower and the completion...

Reflecting debates and concerns within academic and policy circles, this work provides wide-ranging and in-depth commentary on contemporary developments in the politics of international trade.

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) The 1990s began with fears of a "great sucking sound" of jobs lost due to the North American Free Trade Agreement and ended with opponents of the World Trade Organization taking to the streets in the "Battle of Seattle." Why has global trade become so controversial? Does free trade deserve its bad reputation? In Free Trade under Fire, Douglas Irwin sweeps aside the misconceptions that litter the debate...

Nobel Prize winner Stiglitz joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer an argument about how globalization can actually help Third World countries. They address one of the key issues--how can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? To answer this question, the authors put forward a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the poorest countries,...

"In The Rules of the Global Game Kenneth W. Dam provides, in clear and practical language, a comprehensive examination to help non-economists make sense of the forces that shape U.S. international economic policies. Elucidating both the internal structures and external ramifications of global economics, this book can be read with pleasure and profit by layperson and economist alike, as it takes readers beyond the headlines to understand the policies...