This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

The authors consider whether any special circumstances justify departure from free trade in telecommunications equipment.

Economists, trade policy experts, and legislators express their views on the competitive position of the United States in world trade.

This bookconcerns the world of transnational investing and the drift in U.S. policy towards conditional national treatment and the use of foreign investors as a trade tool.

This volume focuses on factors that have contributed to the deterioration of the U.S. trade balance and the erosion of American competitiveness.

This volume shows how a narrow focus on jobs and bilateral trade confrontations jeopardizes the real economic and security interests of the United States and its allies.

This studyrebuts much of the traditional rationale forregulatory restrictions and provides a list of principles of regulation that would serve as a model for global accounting practices.

Contributors review the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates and the historic 1985 agreement by the Group of Five.

This book considers the three geographical regions that present the greatest intellectual property rights problems to U.S. industries--China, Latin America, and India.