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U.S. Trade Policy

History, Theory, and the WTO

By: William A. Lovett,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Richard L. Brinkman

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U.S. Trade Policy

History, Theory, and the WTO

By: William A. Lovett,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Richard L. Brinkman

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

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1317453166

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9781317453161

The United States and the Global Struggle for Minerals

By: Alfred E. Eckes

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The United States and the Global Struggle for Minerals

By: Alfred E. Eckes

In 1973–1974 soaring commodity prices and an oil embargo alerted Americans to the twin dangers of resource exhaustion and dependence on unreliable foreign materials suppliers. This period seemed to mark a watershed in history as the United States shifted from the era of relative resource abundance to relative materials scarcity. Alfred E. Eckes’s comprehensive study shows that resource depletion and supply dislocations are not concerns unique to the 1970s. Since 1914, the quest for secure and stable supplies of industrial materials has been an important underlying theme of international relations and American diplomacy. Although the United States has been blessed with a diversified materials base, it has pursued a minerals strategy designed to exploit low-cost, high-quality ores abroad. Eckes demonstrates how this policy has led to official protection for overseas private investments, involving a role for the Central Intelligence Agency. Some modern historians have neglected the importance of resources in shaping diplomacy and history. This book, based on a vast variety of unutilized archival collections and recently declassified government documents, helps to correct that imbalance. In the process it illuminates an important and still timely aspect of America’s global interests.

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University of Texas Press

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1477300791

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9781477300794

Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

From Ancient Times to the Present

By: Cynthia Clark Northrup,Jerry H. Bentley,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Patrick Manning,Kenneth Pomeranz,Steven Topik

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Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

From Ancient Times to the Present

By: Cynthia Clark Northrup,Jerry H. Bentley,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Patrick Manning,Kenneth Pomeranz,Steven Topik

Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion, communic

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1317471520

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9781317471523

The Contemporary Global Economy

A History since 1980

By: Alfred E. Eckes, Jr.

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The Contemporary Global Economy

A History since 1980

By: Alfred E. Eckes, Jr.

The Contemporary Global Economy provides a lively overview of recent turbulence in the world economy, focusing on the dynamics of globalization since the 1980s. It explains the main drivers of economic change and how we are able to discern their effects in the world today. A lucid and balanced survey, based on extensive research in data and documents, accessible to the non-specialist Written by a renowned specialist in international economic relations with academic and government credentials Offers clear and engaging explanations of the main motors of economic change and how we are able to discern their effects in the world today The author assumes little knowledge of economic theory or financial markets Identifies the challenges for sustainable recovery and economic growth in the years ahead

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405183446

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9781405183444

Opening America's Market

U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776

By: Alfred E. Eckes Jr.

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Opening America's Market

U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776

By: Alfred E. Eckes Jr.

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.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807861189

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9780807861189

U.S. Trade Issues

A Reference Handbook

By: Alfred E. Eckes Jr.

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U.S. Trade Issues

A Reference Handbook

By: Alfred E. Eckes Jr.

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? U.S. Trade Issues: A Reference Handbook is a timely exploration of this vital and politically sensitive question, one that emerged as a crucial issue in the 2008 presidential election. Written by a former chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission, it provides an authoritative, accessible, and unbiased review of the defining events, principal players, and key controversies in U.S. trade policy. U.S. Trade Issues describes American trade policies from the days of the republic to the present, focusing most intently on the post-World War II era. It explores a number of current issues, including the Doha Round of Multilateral Negotiations, NAFTA, and the president's trade authority. In addition, the handbook looks at American trade policy in the context of an increasingly globalized world economy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1598842005

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9781598842005

A Search for Solvency

Bretton Woods and the International Monetary System, 1941-1971

By: Alfred E. Eckes

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A Search for Solvency

Bretton Woods and the International Monetary System, 1941-1971

By: Alfred E. Eckes

Diverted by the dramatic military and political events of July 1944, few Americans realized the significance of an international conference taking place at Bretton Woods, a mountain resort in New Hampshire, far from the battle zones. There United Nations experts were completing plans for a world monetary and financial system that they hoped would create a prosperous, efficient global economy and avert economic tensions that might lead to another world war. Until the dollar crisis of 1971, decisions made at Bretton Woods provided the institutions and rules for international finance. The conference ushered in an era of unprecedented expansion of world trade and prosperity. Based on extensive research in previously unavailable sources, A Search for Solvency relates intriguing and often complicated issues of economic analysis and diplomatic history. It offers a succinct and comprehensive survey of international monetary development from the collapse of the pre–World War I gold standard to the devaluation of the dollar in 1971. In effect, it explains the origins of late twentieth-century global inflation and currency problems. The author details how the ghost of the Great Depression, the failure of monetary reconstruction efforts after World War I, and the memory of the nineteenth-century gold standard guided efforts to construct the Bretton Woods system. This preoccupation with the past, as well as political constraints, produced a monetary system protected against past dangers—fluctuating currencies, controls, and deflation—but dangerously vulnerable to inflationary pressures. The weaknesses of Bretton Woods, a system geared to an era in which economic power was concentrated in the United States, became visible in the 1960s and painfully apparent by the mid-1970s.

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University of Texas Press

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0292772238

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9780292772236

Globalization and the American Century

By: Alfred E. Eckes,Thomas W. Zeiler

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Globalization and the American Century

By: Alfred E. Eckes,Thomas W. Zeiler

Revolutionary improvements in technology combined with the leadership elite's enthusiasm for de-regulation of markets and free trade to fuel American-style globalization. The nation rose to economic power after the Spanish-American War, and won both world wars and the Cold war, after which America's power and cultural influence soared as business and financial interests pursued the long-term quest for global markets. But, the tragic events of September 2001 and the growing volatility of global finance, raised questions about whether the era of American-led globalization was sustainable, or vulnerable to catastrophic collapse.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521009065

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9780521009065

A History of Presidential Elections, from George Washington to Jimmy Carter

By: Eugene Holloway Roseboom,Alfred E. Eckes

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A History of Presidential Elections, from George Washington to Jimmy Carter

By: Eugene Holloway Roseboom,Alfred E. Eckes

Almost entirely redone, this book provides complete coverage of the great changes in politics of electing Presidents, particularly over the past nine years.

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U.S. Trade Issues

A Reference Handbook

By: Alfred E. Eckes Jr.

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A Reference Handbook

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Opening America's Market

U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776

By: Alfred E. Eckes Jr.

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U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776

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The Contemporary Global Economy

A History since 1980

By: Alfred E. Eckes, Jr.

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A History since 1980

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