
The Post-Cold War Trading System
Who's on First?
Sylvia Ostry(Author)
University of Chicago Press
2nd Edition
Published on 21. June 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
978-0-226-63790-7 (ISBN)
Description
With the ending of the Cold War, the search for a new international and economic order has begun. This text examines the role of key economic power brokers, particularly the USA, in the reconstruction and reconfiguration of an international economy after World War II. The author argues that the US policy efforts were so successsful that they led to an unprecendented renewal of economic growth, living standards and education levels in postwar Europe and Japan. Ironically, those same policy successes unintentionally fostered the relative decline of US dominance on the world trade scene as the reduction of trade and investment barriers prompted friction and conflict between different kinds of capitalist systems. Identifying the historical and legal issues in postwar trade policy, Ostrey attempts to chart our economic course through the last half of the 20th century and into the next.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-63790-7 (9780226637907)
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Content
Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1: The Sources of Convergence 2: Building the Convergence Club: Technology and Investment 3: The GATT House: Termites in the Basement 4: The Eighties: Pacific Prelude 5: The East Asian Challenge: A New Convergence Club? 6: The Uruguay Round: Renewing Multilateralism 7: Building the Post-Cold War Trading System Notes Index