A history of the birth of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), showing how the diplomatic and political considerations of the Cold War shaped US trade policy between 1940 and 1953. Zeiler traces the debate between proponents of free trade and advocates of protectionism.
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A history of the birth of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), showing how the diplomatic and political considerations of the Cold War shaped US trade policy between 1940 and 1953. Zeiler traces the debate between proponents of free trade and advocates of protectionism.
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Very good in Very good jacket. xii, [2], 267, [3] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. This is one of the Luther Hartwell Hodges Series on Business, Society, and the State. Tom Zeiler is Professor of History and Director of the Program in International Affairs, and former Chair of the Department of History, at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has published several books, including Free Trade, Free World: America and the Advent of GATT; Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire; and Annihilation: A Global Military History of World War II. He has also written a biography of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, as well as Jackie Robinson and Race in America. Tom has served as the President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) and as editor of Diplomatic History. He also served on State's Historical Advisory Committee on Documentation. It is easy to forget that today's free market values were not always predominant. As this history of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) shows, the principles and practices underlying our current international economy once represented contested ground between U.S. policymakers, Congress, and our closest allies. Zeiler shows how the diplomatic and political considerations of the Cold War shaped American trade policy during the critical years from 1940 to 1953. He traces the debate between proponents of free trade and advocates of protectionism, showing how and why a compromise ultimately triumphed. Placing a liberal trade policy in the service of diplomacy as a means of confronting communism, officials forged a consensus among politicians for freer-if not free-trade that persists to this day. Constructed from contradictory impulses, the system of international trade that evolved under GATT was flexible enough to promote American economic and political interests both at home and abroad, says Zeiler, and it is just such flexibility that has allowed GATT to endure.
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