Constitutional Functions And Constitutional Problems Of International Economic Law

Introduction and Summary -- International Economic Transactions, International Economic Law and International Economic Order -- International Economic Transactions and International Economic Law -- Historical Evolution of International Economic Law Into a "Stratified Order" -- International Economic Order and International Economic Law -- Need for an Economic Analysis of International Economic Law -- "Government Failures" and "Constitutional Failures" of Past and Present Trade Mercantilism -- Need for Constitutional Restraints on Government Powers to Tax and Restrict the Foreign Trade Transactions of Domestic Citizens: Trade Mercantilism as "Government Failure" -- Insufficient Constitutional Restraints in National Laws and in European Community Law on Government Powers to Tax and Restrict Foreign Trade: Trade Mercantilism as "Constitutional Failure" -- Constitutional Functions of Liberal International Economic Rules -- Constitutional Functions of Liberal International Trade and Monetary Rules -- Possibilities of "Constitutionalizing" Foreign Trade Policy and Foreign Trade Law in Constitutional Democracies -- Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in the National Constitutions of Liberal Democracies: A Comparative Legal analysis of the Constitutions of the United States, Switzerland and Germany -- Summary and Conclusions: Constitutionalizing Foreign Trade Policy through Liberal International Rules and their Incorporation into Domestic Constitutional Systems