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The book expresses the views of the contributors about the present and future of Central America. Central American countries are accepting the challenge by diversifying their economies and accepting the advice of the world in terms of privatization, freedom of trade, capital, and free movement of labor.

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The economics and history of the closing years of the 20th century may turn out to mark the era of transformation when the nation-states lose most of their ability to maneuver in economics as finance and investment become transnationalized.

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The authors discuss the major critical variables--such as Soviet systemic barriers and the narrow character of planned Soviet import demand--that should influence any company's decision to do business in the Soviet Union.

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The authors' unique empirical analysis of industry specific trade flows using numerous explanatory variables provides a vigorous test of the view that deficit growth is primarily due to unfair foreign trade practices, overzealous antitrust laws, slack U.S. management, and other microeconomic factors.

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This book proposes a new framework for explaining and anticipating foreign economic policy changes, at the same time providing a fascinating account of three American policy shifts that transformed the postwar international monetary system. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to ag

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A comprehensive review of US trade policy since World War II, with particular emphasis on how that policy has affected developing countries. Special attention is given to trade policy shifts in the last 20 years to determine whether or not trade concessions have helped developing countries.

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This book illuminates the decision-making process of the U.S. Senate by examining the Trade Agreements Act of 1979. Finally, he suggests revisions of the decision-making theories.

Jerome creates three broad theoretical categories to analyze the Senate decision-making process: The first stresses a structural approach;

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An expert analysis of key issues, individuals, and developments in U.S. trade policy from national, regional, and global perspectives.

What is the proper balance between free trade and protecting the American economy

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Fatemi's edited volume is a refreshing contribution to the already voluminous literature on US-Mexican economic relation. This list is broad enough to provide an introduction to US-Mexican economic relations for the novice reader, while US-Mexico specialists will benefit from the analysis of current data and new perspectives on familiar issues.

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The serious threat of the underdeveloped areas of the Common Market, particularly southern Italy and certain regions of France, to European unity is considered and constructive means to alleviate this danger are presented. A careful analysis is made of the regional economies of the underdeveloped areas. In each case the forms of cooperation develop

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An analysis of the complex economic relationship between the United States and Latin America during the 1980s and into the 1990s. The essays demonstrate how the latent tensions among sometimes conflicting US policy goals have been exacerbated by the economic crises of Latin America in the 1980s.

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Examines the "quiet revolution" unfolding in Latin America and its likely consequences for US trade and investment with and within the region, where leaders are extricating their economies from debt-laden stagnation by pursuing far-reaching stabilisation and liberalisation reform programmes.

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This volume, which grew out of a study conducted by the East-West Center, analyzes the friction in telecommunications trade between the United States and Japan and the consequent imposition of the Super 301 clause on Japan.

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The past several years have brought economic, commercial, and investment revolution to China where a consumer society is beginning to emerge.

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Computers mediate between individuals by providing channels of communication in the form of messaging systems; they act as brokers in matching buyers and sellers, employees and employers, resources and work processes, and so on. The social significance of computers as mediators and brokers has treme

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Aims to debunk the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France. This book shows that Britain did not transform smoothly from a mercantilist state in the 18th century to a bastion of free trade in the late 19th.

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The vulnerability of societies caught up in new networks of interdependence due to reduced distances also are put to the fore, in the context of the new accelerated circulation of information, ideas, goods, and human beings.