Dilemmas of International Trade

In the post-Cold War world, trade is the new arena for competition-between nations, between groups, between ethical and theoretical ideas. In this revised and updated second edition of Dilemmas of International Trade political economist Bruce Moon puts contemporary trade events--NAFTA, United States-Japan controversies, the Uruguay Round of GATT, China's Most Favored Nation status, the founding of the World Trade Organization--into historical and theoretical perspective with the British Corn Laws, the Great Depression, the Bretton Woods system, and the origins of the European Union. Economic theory, terms, and concepts are clearly explained and contextualized with those from international relations.Throughout the book, three central dilemmas are examined: the unequal distribution of income and wealth created by international trade, the tradeoff among competing values that trade requires, and the difficult interrelationship between economic and foreign policy goals within and among trading nations. Though internationally framed, each dilemma has ramifications at a variety of levels all the way down to the individual's role in the global economy-as a consumer, as a citizen, and ultimately as a moral agent.

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Bruce E Moon

Summary

A work which puts post-Cold War trade issues into historical and theoretical perspective with the British Corn Laws, the Great Depression, the Bretton Woods system, and the origins of the European Union.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce E. Moon, Bruce E Moon
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.08.2000
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780813367682
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-6768-2
• Pages: 288
• Series: Dilemmas in World Politics
• Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, United States, Political science & theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Political science and theory, International Political Economy, West Germany, International Trade, Economic theory and philosophy, International trade and commerce, Global Economic Integration, North American Free Trade Agreement, Corn Laws, Strategic trade theory, mercantilist policies, trade liberalization effects, income inequality trade, comparative trade policy dilemmas, protectionism analysis, ECSC Treaty, Gdp Decline, EPA's Regulation, Stolper Samuelson Theorem, Fair Trade Commission, bretton woods II, Trade Policy Choices, Trade Policy Debates, Foreign Agriculture, Japanese Trade Policy, System's Exchange Rate Mechanism, EU's Classification, American Trade Policy, IMF Member, EU's Request, Bilateral Trade Imbalance