A stream of windows : unsettling reflections on trade, immigration, and democracy / Jagdish Bhagwati.
1998
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A stream of windows : unsettling reflections on trade, immigration, and democracy / Jagdish Bhagwati.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998]
Copyright
©1998
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HF1713 .B472 1998
ISBN
0262024403 (alk. paper)
Description
liii, 531 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)37755118
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"Second printing, 1998"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Unsettling reflections on trade, immigration, and democracy
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
I
Trade in the Global Age
1
1A New Epoch?
3
2The Global Age: From a Skeptical South to a Fearful North
29
II
On the Mat: The Poverty of Protectionism
73
3The Poverty of Protectionism
75
III
The Diminished Giant Syndrome: The Obsessive Search for "Fair Trade" and Reciprocity
93
4The Diminished Giant Syndrome: How Declinism Drives Trade Policy
95
5Hormones and Trade Wars
105
6The Dangers of Selective Safeguards
109
7Brie for Breakfast
113
8Rough Trade
119
9An Unhealthy Obsession with Reciprocity
133
IV
Aggressive Unilateralism: Playing at High Noon
139
10Super 301's Big Bite Flouts the Rules
141
11It's the Process, Stupid!
145
V
Japan on One's Mind: The Clintonites down the Precipice
149
12What Buchanan Owes Clinton
153
13Trade Wars
155
14Facing the Japanese Challenge
157
15The Japanese - Not So Inscrutable to Adam Smith
165
16The Fraudulent Case against Japan
169
17On Boiling Frogs
175
18Samurais No More
177
19Japan Must Now Say No
189
20Is This Showdown Necessary?
193
21The U.S.-Japan Car Dispute: A Monumental Mistake
199
VI
The Folly of "Fair Trade before Free Trade": Environment and Labor Standards
229
22The Case for Free Trade
231
23American Rules, Mexican Jobs
245
24Trade Liberalisation and "Fair Trade" Demands: Addressing the Environmental and Labour Standards Issues
247
VII
Free Trade Areas Are Not Free Trade!
269
25Let GATT Live
271
26Why Ross Is Wrong
275
27Beyond NAFTA: Clinton's Trading Choices
279
28Preferential Trade Agreements: The Wrong Road
289
29The Watering of Trade
299
30Threats to the World Trading System: Income Distribution and the Selfish Hegemon
303
VIII
Coping with Immigration
313
31A Champion for Migrating Peoples
315
32Behind the Green Card
319
33Control Immigration at the Border
337
34Sanctuary
343
35Student Visas Drop Anchor
349
36The U.S. Brain Gain - At the Expense of Blacks?
353
37The False Alarm of "Too Many Scientists"
363
38Free Trade Can Cut Health Costs
369
39Bashing the Illegals
373
IX
Democracy and Its Contents
377
40Democracy and Development: New Thinking on an Old Question
379
41Better than Bloomsbury?
409
42America Grows Roots Outside the Old Testament
417
43Learning from the Religions of Others
421
44Crisis Helps Advance Ideological Positions on Population Growth
423
45Panic, Petulance, and Paranoia about Japan
425
46"Agents of Influence": An Exchange
429
47Exclude the Exclusionary Rule
433
48Recalling Orwell
437
X
In the Ring: With Soros, Wriston, Sachs, and Valenti
449
49Wheel of Fortune
451
50In the Market We Trust
457
51Shock Treatments
463
52Free Trade at the Movies Puts U.S. in New Role
477
XI
Economists and Economics
479
53Remembering Harry G. Johnson
481
54On Learned Journals in Economics
495
55The End of All Our Exploring
501
56A Machine for Going Backwards
507
Illustration Credits
515
Index
517