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Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776 - Couverture rigide

Jr., Alfred E. Eckes

 
9780807822135: Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0807822132 ISBN 13 : 9780807822135
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1995

Synopsis

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 over the last sixty years, placing them within a historical perspective.

Eckes reconsiders trade policy issues and events from Benjamin Franklin to Bill Clinton, attributing growing political unrest and economic insecurity in the 1990s to shortsighted policy decisions made in the generation after World War II. Eager to win the Cold War and promote the benefits of free trade, American officials generously opened the domestic market to imports but tolerated foreign discrimination against American goods. American consumers and corporations gained in the resulting global economy, but many low-skilled workers have become casualties.

Eckes also challenges criticisms of the 'infamous' protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which allegedly worsened the Great Depression and provoked foreign retaliation. In trade history, he says, this episode was merely a mole hill, not a mountain.
|A former U.S. trade official provides a critique of U.S. trade policies over the last 60 years, placing them within full historical perspective. (Please see cloth edition published 9/95.)

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À propos de l'auteur

Alfred E. Eckes, Jr., a former chairman and commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission, is Ohio Eminent Research Professor in Contemporary History at Ohio University. His books include The United States and the Global Struggle for Minerals.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807822132
ISBN 13 
9780807822135
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
424
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