Overview of the Special Issue prepared under the direction of Guest Editor Robert Stern.Robert M. Stern, the Guest Editor of this special issue of the Global Economy Journal, is Professor of Economics and Public Policy (Emeritus) in the Department of Economics and Gerald R. Ford School of Public...

Examination of the differences in strike frequency in the United States metropolitan areas between 1968 and 1970. Factors that influence the frequency of strikes; Characteristics of cities; Impact of local, industrial, and government structure on the incidence of strikes; Summary and...

This article focuses especially on the positions that the developing countries should take in their own interests on the issues of manufactures liberalization and administered protection. A series of recommendations are set forth with supporting argument: (1-2) for market access, both developed...

Introduction and Overview of the Symposium.

In this paper, we first discuss why fairness is a condition of the agreements among governments that form the global trading system. We then suggest that fairness can best be considered within the framework of two concepts: equality of opportunity and distributive equity. We observe that the...