Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange : World Political Economy in the 1930s and 1980s /

Did bilateral and regional bargaining choke off international commerce and finance in the 1930s and prolong the Great Depression? Is the open world economic system now being placed at risk by explicitly discriminatory practices that erode respect for the GATT, the IMF, and the IBRD? Most political e...

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Main Author: Oye, Kenneth A., 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1993.
Series:Princeton studies in international history and politics.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
  • PREFACE
  • PART I Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE The Economic State of Nature Revisited: Unrestricted Bargaining and Economic Order
  • PART II Toward a Theory of Unrestricted Bargaining
  • CHAPTER TWO The Management of Spillover Effects: Public, Private, and Divertable Externalities
  • CHAPTER THREE The Logic of Contingent Action: Exchange, Extortion, and Explanation
  • CHAPTER FOUR The Concept of Preference: Bias and Instability in the Valuation of Outcomes
  • PART III: Depression and Discrimination
  • CHAPTER FIVE The Politics of Trade Diversion: Commercial Relations in the 1930s
  • CHAPTER SIX The Politics of Default and Depreciation: Financial and Monetary Relations in the 1930s
  • PART IV: Prosperity and Hypocrisy
  • CHAPTER SEVEN The Politics of Bilateral and Regional Openness: Commercial Relations in the 1980s
  • CHAPTER EIGHT The Politics of Debt and Deficits: Financial and Macroeconomic Relations in the 1980s
  • PART V: Conclusion
  • CHAPTER NINE The Perils of Imprecise Analogy: Comparisons Between the 1930s and the 1980s
  • Bibliography
  • Index