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Opening America's Market by Alfred E. Eckes
US Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776
Offers a critique of US trade policies since the late 1930s, placing them within a historical perspective dating back to 1776. The book reconsiders trade policy, attributing growing political unrest and economic insecurity in the 1990s to shortsighted policy decisions made after World War II.Despite the passage of NAFTA and other recent free trade victories in the United States, former US trade official Alfred Eckes warns that these developments have a dark side. This text offers a critique of US trade policies since the late 1930s, 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. |
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| Author(s) : Alfred E. Eckes | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0807822132 | ISBN-13 : 9780807822135 |
| RRP : £36.50 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Business, Society & the State
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 01/12/1995
Publisher : The University of North Carolina Press
Page Length : 424mm
Page Size : 235mm