Название:America's International Trade: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)
Автор: E. Willard Miller & Ruby M. Miller
Издательство: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO
Год: 1995
Формат: chm
Страниц: 325
Для сайта: litgu.ruРазмер: 564 kB
Язык: English
Grade 9 Up?Poorly written and heavily biased toward "free-trade" policies, this turgid compilation of facts will find some use by budding policy wonks looking for sources for debate preparation. The initial chapter gives an extremely brief description of trade controls; export promotion; international agreements; modern objectives of U.S. policy; and the growth, importance, and distribution of U.S. trade. After a chronology and brief discussion of trade legislation, most of the book is a directory of trade-related organizations and an extensive bibliography (books are annotated, articles are not). The bibliography does include a few items critical of free-trade thinking (e.g., Ravi Batra's books), but the introduction assumes the goodness of "unfettered" commerce. The text demands a fairly high level of knowledge of economics, and its design and organization are unattractive to nonmotivated readers. Therefore, libraries should stick with standard works on the topic, like William Hart's The United States and World Trade (Watts, 1985; o.p.) and Trade (Greenhaven, 1991). Both of them have much more explanatory power and are better balanced, though they don't cover recent developments such as NAFTA and the Uruguay Round of GATT.?Jonathan Betz-Zall, Sno-Isle Regional Library System, Edmonds, WA
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