Opening America's market : U.S. foreign trade policy since 1776 / Alfred E. Eckes, Jr.

Author
Eckes, Alfred E., 1942- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995.
Description
xxi, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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    Business, society & the state [More in this series]
    Summary note
    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, concentrating on the evolution of those policies over the last sixty years and placing them within a broad historical perspective. While many believe the United States rose to world leadership on the strength of its commitment to free trade, Eckes shows the facts are quite different.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-382) and index.
    Contents
    • Free trade and economic security, 1776-1860
    • Protection and prosperity?
    • Unreciprocal trade
    • Infamous Smoot-Hawley
    • Cordell Hull's tariff revolution
    • Opening America's market, 1960-1974
    • Illusive safeguards
    • Curbing executive discretion in unfair trade cases.
    ISBN
    • 0807822132 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780807822135 ((alk. paper))
    • 0807848115 ((pbk.))
    • 9780807848111 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    95002791
    OCLC
    31970585
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