Professor Fischer presents a comprehensive overview of global trade at
the start of a new century, from a national, regional, and
international viewpoint. He looks closely at the four dominant and
competing economic systems—the United States, the European Union,
Japan, and China—and argues that the traditional we-win/you-lose
national trade paradigm has been replaced by one that is more
collaborative, one that is leaning toward de facto world governance.
He compares foreigners' attitudes toward trade and markets with our
own, using four economic models that typify world trade today. He
examines the interface between national, regional, and international
trading systems and between business and government, then at the
prospect of global trade management in different trade sectors under
the GATT/WTO and other organizations. The result is a provocative
discussion of global trade today. Professor Fischer makes it clear
that the United States needs allies. Though its influence in the world
trade arena will continue, America's hegemony has ended. The European
Union is America's most obvious ally, but it has many problems and
ambitions of its own. The North American Free Trade Agreement has
solidified the North American market but it may isolate and lose South
America, while Japan, China, Russia, and others are left to develop
alliances of their own. All these factors raise important global
questions, among them: Can American capitalism prevail? Should the
United States proceed unilaterally, as it has so often? Or are
regional and multinational arrangements preferable? If there is
further globalization, as seems inevitable, and if American influence
is on the wane, what group or organization will lead? To explore these
questions and provide the beginnings of answers, Professor Fischer
uses his four competing economic systems and handicaps the process
country by country, sector by sector, with particular attention to
transatlantic relations.
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ISBN
9780313004155
Publisert
2023
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Praeger
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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