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  • Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

    From Ancient Times to the Present

    by Cynthia Clark Northrup, Jerry H. Bentley, Alfred E. Eckes, Jr, Patrick Manning, Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik ...
    Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion, communic ... Read more

    $600.00 USD

  • A Search for Solvency

    Bretton Woods and the International Monetary System, 1941-1971

    by Alfred E. Eckes Jr. ...
    Diverted by the dramatic military and political events of July 1944, few Americans realized the significance of an international conference taking place at Bretton Woods, a mountain resort in New Hampshire, far from the battle zones. There United Nations experts were completing plans for a world monetary and financial system that they hoped would create a prosperous, efficient global economy and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Reagan's Legacy in a World Transformed

    by Jeffrey L. Chidester, Paul Kengor, Barry E. Carter, Eliot A. Cohen, Alfred E. Eckes Jr., Beth A. Fischer, Kim R. Holmes, Henry R. Nau0, Kiron K. Skinner1, Peter Trubowitz2, Julian E. Zelizer3 ...
    Since Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, the global community has witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the integration of Europe, the War on Terror and the Arab Spring, a hot Chinese economy and a major international recession. Reagan’s Legacy in a World Transformed brings together scholars from diverse disciplines and persuasions to assess the fortieth president’s policies and their ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Opening America's Market

    U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776

    by Alfred E. Eckes Jr. ...
    Despite the passage of NAFTA and other recent free trade victories in the United States, former U.S. trade official Alfred Eckes warns that these developments have a dark side. Opening America’s Market offers a bold critique of U.S. trade policies over the last sixty years, placing them within a historical perspective.Eckes reconsiders trade policy issues and events from Benjamin Franklin to Bill ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Reagan's Legacy in a World Transformed

    by Jeffrey L. Chidester, Paul Kengor, Barry E. Carter, Eliot A. Cohen, Alfred E. Eckes Jr., Beth A. Fischer, Kim R. Holmes, Henry R. Nau0, Kiron K. Skinner1, Peter Trubowitz2, Julian E. Zelizer3 ...
    Since Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, the global community has witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the integration of Europe, the War on Terror and the Arab Spring, a hot Chinese economy and a major international recession. Reagan’s Legacy in a World Transformed brings together scholars from diverse disciplines and persuasions to assess the fortieth president’s policies and their ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • U.S. Trade Policy

    History, Theory, and the WTO

    by William A. Lovett, Alfred E. Eckes, Jr, Richard L. Brinkman ...
    Lovett (Tulane Law School), Eckes (a former commissioner of the U.S. International Commission during the Reagan and Bush I administrations), and Brinkman (international economics, Portland State U.) evaluate the evolution of U.S. trade policy, focusing on the period from the establishment of the Gen ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The United States and the Global Struggle for Minerals

    by Alfred E. Eckes Jr. ...
    In 1973–1974 soaring commodity prices and an oil embargo alerted Americans to the twin dangers of resource exhaustion and dependence on unreliable foreign materials suppliers. This period seemed to mark a watershed in history as the United States shifted from the era of relative resource abundance to relative materials scarcity.Alfred E. Eckes’s comprehensive study shows that resource depletion ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • U.S. Trade Issues

    A Reference Handbook

    by Alfred E. Eckes Jr. ...
    Series series Contemporary World Issues
    An expert analysis of key issues, individuals, and developments in U.S. trade policy from national, regional, and global perspectives.What is the proper balance between free trade and protecting the American economy? U.S. Trade Issues: A Reference Handbook is a timely exploration of this vital and politically sensitive question, one that emerged as a crucial issue in the 2008 presidential election ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Contemporary Global Economy

    A History since 1980

    by Alfred E. Eckes Jr. ...
    Series Book 6 - Blackwell History of the Contemporary World
    The Contemporary Global Economy provides a lively overview of recent turbulence in the world economy, focusing on the dynamics of globalization since the 1980s. It explains the main drivers of economic change and how we are able to discern their effects in the world today.A lucid and balanced survey, based on extensive research in data and documents, accessible to the non-specialistWritten by a ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

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  • Dangerous Business

    by Pat Choate ...
    From one of the most respected and vigorous economic thinkers in Washington, a wake-up call about the perils of unfettered globalization. In this impassioned, prescient book, Pat Choate shows us that while increased worldwide economic integration has some benefits for our fiscal efficiency, it also creates dependencies, vulnerabilities, national security risks, and social costs that now outweigh ... Read more

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  • Do Morals Matter?

    Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump

    by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. ...
    A concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have--and have not--incorporated ethics into their foreign policy. Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in US ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • The Great Depression

    America 1929-1941

    by Robert S. McElvaine ...
    One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed ... Read more

    $14.99 USD