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Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776 (Business, Society, and the State) | 
 enlarge | Author: Alfred E. Eckes
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1777877
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 424
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 0807822132
Dewey Decimal Number: 382.30973
EAN: 9780807822135
ASIN: 0807822132
Publication Date: September 1995
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Despite the passage of NAFTA and other recent free trade victories in the United States, former US trade official Alfred Eckes warns that these developments have a dark side. This text offers a critique of US trade policies since the late 1930s, 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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 Understood Difference Between FREE Trade and FAIR Trade October 3, 2008
Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
20081214 DEPARTED AMAZON WITH OUTRAGE OVER THE MANIPULATION OF VOTES.
I give the author high marks for understanding early on the difference between FREE trade and FAIR trade. While he is an avowed protectionist and much of what he offers must be balanced by more progressive views, the tide is turning as "true costs" become established and we all begin to realize that between exporting solid jobs for the middle class and the earnest blue collar trade specialists, and allowing illegal immigration and the Reagan-led destruction of the trade unions, we have put a stake in the heart of THE fundamental source of national power and prosperity: people.
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Reader (Arlington, Virginia)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an incomplete and polemical history of U.S. trade policy written from a protectionist point of view. On the plus side, Eckes served as an International Trade Commissioner in the 1980s and has an insider's knowledge of American trade politics; in addition, while preparing the book, he turned up some interesting documents on the role of the State Department in trade remedy cases in the 1950s and '60s. However, he offers no economic analysis, does not present both sides of the trade debate, and sneers at professional economists rather than rebuts the case they make for free trade. (One almost wonders about his impartiality on the ITC). He also barely mentions U.S. policy in the GATT or the WTO. These are fatal lapses in a book on this subject. Not recommended.
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