Fair Trade and Harmonization: Prerequisites for Free Trade?, Volume 1Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Robert E. Hudec MIT Press, 1996 - 598 pages The original contributions in Fair Trade and Harmonization investigate the growing conflict between free trade policies and the domestic environmental, labor, and antitrust policies of individual nations. They clarify the issues and offer a critical economic and legal analysis of the contending positions along with a series of proposals for resolving or reconciling them. Taken together, the two volumes present a comprehensive catalog of the government actions that are causing conflict in these areas and a critique of the existing scholarly literature on the subject. In each area, the contributors extensively discuss and analyze forms of policy harmonization and the arguments for and against it, with a goal of better understanding as a constant throughout. A more particular goal, however is to take a sober second look at, and impose some restraint upon, the growing chorus of demands to push aside the existing trade institution (the World Trade Organization) in the name of social policies, especially those regarding environmental and labor rights. Contributors |
Contents
Introduction to the Legal Studies | 1 |
Diverging Domestic Policies and Multilateral Trade Integration | 21 |
GATT Legal Restraints on Domestic Environmental | 59 |
GATT Legal Restraints on the Use of Trade Measures against | 95 |
The Social Clause | 177 |
General Reflections on the Relationship of Trade and Labor | 231 |
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Fair Trade and Harmonization: Prerequisites for Free Trade?, Volume 1 Jagdish N. Bhagwati,Robert E. Hudec No preview available - 1996 |
Fair Trade and Harmonization: Economic analysis Jagdish N. Bhagwati,Robert E. Hudec No preview available - 1996 |
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The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: A Commentary Petros C. Mavroidis No preview available - 2005 |