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Risking Free Trade
Michael Lusztig
其他書名
The Politics of Trade in Britain, Canada, Mexico, and the United States
出版University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010-11-23
主題Political Science / GeneralPolitical Science / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs
ISBN08229747899780822974789
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qCqqXgGqB3AC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋There are few issues as politically explosive as the liberalization of trade, as recent controversies in the United States, Canada, and Mexico have shown. While loosening trade restrictions may make sense for a nation's economy as a whole, it typically alienates powerful vested interests. Those interests can exact severe political costs for the government that enacts change. So why accept the risk?Michael Lusztig contructs a model to determine why and under what conditions governments will take the free trade gamble. Lusztig uses his model to explain shifts to free trade in four cases: Britain's repeal of the Corn Laws; the United States' enactment of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (1934); Canada's decision to initiate continental free trade with the United States in 1985; and Mexico's decision to pursue the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1990.