Publication

2019 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

125,000 words, Guess

Page Count

500 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781108476959
  • ISBN-101108476953
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018038865
  • OCLC Control Number1050457000
  • Better World Books9781108476959
and 2 more

Classifications

  • LCCHF1455.V26 2019
  • LCCHF1455 .V26 2019

Description

From the days of Alexander Hamilton to the trade wars of Donald Trump, trade policy has been a key instrument of American power and wealth. The open trading system that the United States sponsored after the Second World War serves US interests by promoting cooperation and prosperity, but also allows the allies to become more independent and China to rise. The case studies in Trade and American Leadership examine how the value of preferential trade programs is undercut by the multilateral liberalization that the United States promoted for generations, and how trade sanctions tend either to be too economically costly to impose or too modest to matter. These problems are exacerbated by a domestic political system in which the gains from trade are unevenly distributed, power is fragmented, and strategies are easily undermined. Trade and American Leadership places special emphasis on today's challenges, and the rising danger of economic nationalism.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Trade and American Leadership: The Paradoxes of Power and Wealth from Alexander Hamilton to Donald TrumpCambridge University Press2019-01-01

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