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Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade

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Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade - Bhagwati, Jagdish
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Preferential Trade Agreements, many taking the form of Free Trade Agreements, now number over 300 and are rapidly increasing. In this new book, leading economist Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how these agreements have recreated the unhappy situation of the protectionist 1930s, when world trade was undermined by discriminatory practices (today, ironically, as a result of a misdirected pursuit of free trade). The world trading system is definitely at risk again, the author argues, and the danger is palpable. Indeed, PTAs have ...

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Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade 2008, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195331653

Hardcover