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Has Globalization Gone Far Enough?
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Dani Rodrik, Robert Z Lawrence, Scott Bradford
This text examines the benefits and risks of international economic integration, and criticizes mainstream economists for not emphasizing its dangers. It argues that the "winners" have as much at stake from the possible consequences of social instability exposed by globalization, as the "losers".
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Regionalism, Multinationalism, and Deeper Integration
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Robert Z Lawrence
This work is part of the Integrating National Economies series. As global markets for goods, services and financial assets have become increasingly integrated, national governments no longer have as much control over economic markets. With the completion of the Uruguay Round of the GATT talks, the world economy has entered a fresh phase requiring ...
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Globaphobia: Confronting Fears about Open Trade
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Gary Burtless, Professor Robert E Litan, Robert J Shapiro
The authors of this book speak directly and simply to concerns about globalization, demonstrating with easy prose and illustrations why the globaphobes are wrong. The authors explain that the challenge for all Americans is to embrace globalization and all of the benefits it brings, while adopting targeted policies to ease the very real pain of ...
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Crimes and Punishments: Retaliation Under the Wto
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Robert Z Lawrence
One of the aspects of the WTO is that it authorizes members to retaliate against violations by raising tariffs. This analysis of the retaliation system considers the guiding principles that govern responses to WTO violations and examines how these principles are implemented.
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A Vision for the World Economy: Openness, Diversity, and Cohesion
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Robert Z Lawrence, Takatoshi Ito, Albert Bressand
In this capstone volume in the INE series, the authors review the growing pressure for deeper international integration, explore the strengths and weaknesses of alternative approaches to dealing with these pressures, and present concrete proposals to help achieve a global community that will balance openness, diversity, and cohesion.
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Case Studies on US Trade Negotiation, Volume 1: Making the Rules
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Charan Devereaux, Robert Z Lawrence, Michael Watkins
Between 1992 and 2000, US exports rose by 55 percent. By the year 2000, trade summed to 26 percent of US GDP, and the United States imported almost two-thirds of its oil and was the world's largest host country for foreign investors. America's interest in a more open and prosperous foreign market is now squarely economic. These case studies in ...
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Single World, Divided Nations?: International Trade and the OECD Labor Markets
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Robert Z Lawrence
Lawrence examines the role of trade in developed and developing countries and its impact on labor markets and wage inequality, and discusses what he considers the more important effects of technological and organizational change.
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An American Trade Strategy: Options for the 1990s
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Robert Z Lawrence (Editor), Charles L Schultze (Editor)
An American Trade Strategy assesses options for the decade ahead, examining the case for multilateral free trade, aggressive blateralism, and managed trade, as well as their shortcomings.
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A Prism on Globalization: Corporate Responses to the Dollar
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Subramanian Rangan, Robert Z Lawrence
The unprecedented shifts in the US dollar's exchange rate that started during the late 1970s and continued through the 1980s provides an opportunity to explore how the global economy works and the role that multinational enterprises (MNEs) play in the phenomenon of globalization. In this volume, Subramanian Rangan and Robert Z. Lawrence examine ...
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North American Free Trade: Assessing the Impact
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Nora Lustig (Editor), Robert Z Lawrence (Editor), Barry Bosworth (Editor)
This study features six essays which review the available literature on the effects of NAFTA on growth, employment, income distribution, specific industries, and agriculture in the three countries, as well as the implications for the world trading system and non-NAFTA countries.
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Blue-Collar Blues: Is Trade to Blame for Rising US Income Inequality?
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Robert Z Lawrence
What are the links between slow US real wage growth, increased earnings inequality and trade? Lawrence deconstructs the gap between real blue-collar wages and labor productivity growth over the past quarter-century and estimates how much of the gap is due to measurement issues and how much higher these wages might have been if the distribution of ...
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Saving Free Trade: A Pragmatic Approach
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Robert Z Lawrence
American Supporters of free trade are on the defensive. Record U.S. trade deficits are fueling demands from industry, Congress, and the public for tariffs, import quotas, and other protectionist measures that could reverse Americas long-standing commitment to open markets and sacrifice much of the economic progress experienced in recent years. In ...
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A us-middle east trade agreement: A Circle of Opportunity?
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Robert Z Lawrence
Would Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) between the nations of the Middle East and the United States be beneficial? What type of economic benefits could be expected? Since the FTA with Jordon was signed in October 2000, Jordanian exports to the US increased from $72.8 million in 2000 to a stunning $1.267 billion in 2005 and the exports were so large ...
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Building Bridges: An Egypt-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
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Ahmed Galal (Editor), Robert Z Lawrence (Editor)
In April 1997, Egyptian President Mubarak and U.S. Vice President Gore agreed to explore the possibility of creating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Egypt and the United States. The very idea of such an agreement has been met by controversy and skepticism from critics in both countries. The authors of this book, however, believe that the case ...
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Case Studies on U S Trade Negotiations: Vol. 2: Resolving Disputes
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Charan Devereaux, Robert Z Lawrence, Michael Watkins
Between 1992 and 2000, US exports rose by 55 percent. By the year 2000, trade summed to 26 percent of US GDP, and the United States imported almost two-thirds of its oil and was the world's largest host country for foreign investors. America's interest in a more open and prosperous foreign market is now squarely economic. These case studies in ...
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Emerging Agenda for Global Trade: High Stakes for Developing Countries: Policy Essay No. 20
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Robert Z Lawrence, Professor John Whalley, Professor Dani Rodrik
This essay addresses the "new-new" issues on the emerging agenda for the global trade negotiations to follow the recently concluded Uruguay Round. The authors first examine the extent to which international rules in new trade areas are needed and then consider the three highest profile issuescompetition policy, labor standards, and linking trade ...
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American Living Standards: Threats and Challenges
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Professor Robert E Litan (Editor), Charles L Schultze (Editor), Robert Z Lawrence (Editor)
American Living Standards contends that the central problem of the U.S. economy has been for some years now, and for the foreseeable future will continue to be, the slowdown in the growth of living standards. This decline began in the early 1970s, was masked by a resort to overseas borrowing in the early 1980s, and now threatens to get worse in ...
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Commodity Prices and the New Inflation
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Robert Z. Lawrence, Barry P. Bosworth
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The United States and the WTO Dispute Settlement System: March 2007
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Robert Z Lawrence
Lawrence addresses the critics of the dispute settlement mechanismboth those who think it should be tougher on countries that violate trade rules and those who think it is already so tough as to violate sovereignty. He points out the successes of the WTO since its creation in 1995 and argues that radical changes to the system are ill-advised. ...
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Brookings Trade Forum: 1998
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Robert Z. Lawrence (Editor)
The Brookings Institution introduces a series of annual volumes that provide the most authoritative and in-depth analysis available on current and emerging issues in international trade. Each edition will present a series of papers on a particular theme prepared by leading experts in the field. Discussions of the papers by other leading trade ...
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Barriers to European Growth: A Transatlantic View
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Robert Z. Lawrence (Editor), Charles L. Schultze (Editor)
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Case Studies in US Trade Negotiation: Volume 1: Making the Rules/Volume 2: Resolving Disputes
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Charan Devereaux, Robert Z Lawrence, Michael Watkins
Between 1992 and 2000, US exports rose by 55 percent. By the year 2000, trade summed to 26 percent of US GDP, and the United States imported almost two-thirds of its oil and was the world's largest host country for foreign investors. America's interest in a more open and prosperous foreign market is now squarely economic. These case studies in ...
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Globalization and Trilateral Labor Markets: Evidence and Implications
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Niels Thygesen, Professor Yutaka Kosai, Robert Z Lawrence
The main task of this volume--undertaken in chapters on the United States, Japan, and Europe--is to discuss the evidence of a link from globalization to growing tensions in Trilateral labor markets.
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Single World, Divided Nations?: International Trade and the OECD Labor Markets
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Oecd Development Centre, Robert Z Lawrence
Lawrence examines the role of trade in developed and developing countries and its impact on labor markets and wage inequality, and discusses what he considers the more important effects of technological and organizational change.
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Can America Compete?
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Robert Z Lawrence
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