Product Description: Thoroughly updated to reflect the many recent changes in the international trading system, the second edition of this acclaimed study again provides a unique integration of the three critical aspects of U.S. foreign trade policy formulation and implementation: economics, politics, and law...read more

Product Description: This unique text integrates for the first time the three critical aspects of U.S. foreign trade policy formulation and implementation: economics, politics, and laws. In a comprehensive and nonjudgmental manner, a political scientist, an economist, and a legal scholar combine efforts to present a well-rounded view of the nature and impact of trade policy as well as how it is made...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book examines the impact of capital market liberalization and finds that it has created much economic instability and has failed to deliver on the promise of increased growth. Blecker concludes that a better architecture must include policies such as regulating capital flows, reforming the IMF, stabilizing exchange rates, and coordinating macroeconomic policies...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays offers critical perspectives on current issues in the international economy. Divided into four parts, U.S. Trade Policy and Global Growth discusses managed trade and international interdependence, the effect of trade on domestic wages and employment, the costs and benefits of trade protection, and likely effects of NAFTA...read more

Product Description: This study documents evidence of a decline trend in the international competitiveness of US industry. The analysis identifies three groups of countries that account for most of the US trade deficit in the 1980s: the surplus countries, Germany and Japan; the East Asian NICs; and the Latin American debtors...read more