Author: Charles Melville PepperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
American Foreign Trade
Author: Charles Melville PepperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Opening America's Market
Author: Alfred E. Eckes Jr.Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807861189
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
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.
AMER FOREIGN TRADE THE US AS A
Author: Charles M. (Charles Melville) 1. PepperPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781360214573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
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Advancing American Foreign Trade
Author: National Foreign Trade CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
American Foreign Trade; the United States as a World Power in the New Era of International Commerce
Author: Charles Melville PepperPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021946997
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Charles Melville Pepper's comprehensive study of American foreign trade provides a detailed analysis of the United States' role in international commerce. From trade agreements to tariffs, Pepper examines all aspects of foreign trade, offering insights into the challenges and opportunities faced by American businesses and policymakers. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the intersection of politics, economics, and international relations. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Clashing Over Commerce
Author: Douglas A. IrwinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639901X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 873
Book Description
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year: “Tells the history of American trade policy . . . [A] grand narrative [that] also debunks trade-policy myths.” —Economist Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevitable, James Madison argued in the Federalist Papers, because trade policy involves clashing economic interests. The struggle between the winners and losers from trade has always been fierce because dollars and jobs are at stake: depending on what policy is chosen, some industries, farmers, and workers will prosper, while others will suffer. Douglas A. Irwin’s Clashing over Commerce is the most authoritative and comprehensive history of US trade policy to date, offering a clear picture of the various economic and political forces that have shaped it. From the start, trade policy divided the nation—first when Thomas Jefferson declared an embargo on all foreign trade and then when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union over excessive taxes on imports. The Civil War saw a shift toward protectionism, which then came under constant political attack. Then, controversy over the Smoot-Hawley tariff during the Great Depression led to a policy shift toward freer trade, involving trade agreements that eventually produced the World Trade Organization. Irwin makes sense of this turbulent history by showing how different economic interests tend to be grouped geographically, meaning that every proposed policy change found ready champions and opponents in Congress. Deeply researched and rich with insight and detail, Clashing over Commerce provides valuable and enduring insights into US trade policy past and present. “Combines scholarly analysis with a historian’s eye for trends and colorful details . . . readable and illuminating, for the trade expert and for all Americans wanting a deeper understanding of America’s evolving role in the global economy.” —National Review “Magisterial.” —Foreign Affairs
Winners and Losers
Author: Diana C. MutzPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203032
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
From acclaimed political scientist Diana Mutz, a revealing look at why people's attitudes on trade differ from their own self-interest Winners and Losers challenges conventional wisdom about how American citizens form opinions on international trade. While dominant explanations in economics emphasize personal self-interest—and whether individuals gain or lose financially as a result of trade—this book takes a psychological approach, demonstrating how people view the complex world of international trade through the lens of interpersonal relations. Drawing on psychological theories of preference formation as well as original surveys and experiments, Diana Mutz finds that in contrast to the economic view of trade as cooperation for mutual benefit, many Americans view trade as a competition between the United States and other countries—a contest of us versus them. These people favor trade as long as they see Americans as the "winners" in these interactions, viewing trade as a way to establish dominance over foreign competitors. For others, trade is a means of maintaining more peaceful relations between countries. Just as individuals may exchange gifts to cement relationships, international trade is a tie that binds nations together in trust and cooperation. Winners and Losers reveals how people's orientations toward in-groups and out-groups play a central role in influencing how they think about trade with foreign countries, and shows how a better understanding of the psychological underpinnings of public opinion can lead to lasting economic and societal benefits.
American Foreign Trade the United States as a World Power in the New Era of International Commerce (Classic Reprint)
Author: Charles M. PepperPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330796573
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Excerpt from American Foreign Trade the United States as a World Power in the New Era of International Commerce The epoch of the Great War is the beginning of a new era in the trade relations, as in the political relations, of the world. At the outset the war was viewed merely as an interlude in the shifting drama of international commerce. But the drama proved to be tragedy. Instead of an interlude, the war became the prelude to economic events whose full significance is as yet somewhat dimly apprehended. One of its consequences is the readjustment of their industry, trade and finance by all nations. The United States in this readjustment has become the world power in international commerce. Foreign trade for the first time in their history has come to have definite meaning to the American people. They have begun to realize its place in their own economic system. It may be viewed as a phase of domestic policy or in the manifold aspects of world policy. The larger view invites. It assumes readiness to recognize that exports are only one factor in foreign trade; in other words, that this is a question of mutual markets. It presumes that the manufacturer in the United States is ready to seek the market abroad as a primary market. It involves understanding of the United States as a lending country with the opportunities and the responsibilities that belong to a creditor nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
United States Foreign Trade; Export Trade by Country
Author: U.S. Trade Policy
Author: William A. LovettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317453166
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Lovett (Tulane Law School), Eckes (a former commissioner of the U.S. International Commission during the Reagan and Bush I administrations), and Brinkman (international economics, Portland State U.) evaluate the evolution of U.S. trade policy, focusing on the period from the establishment of the Gen