Limits to Liberalization

by Patricia M. Goff

Book Overview

The so-called culture industries--film, television and radio broadcasting, periodical and book publishing, video and sound recording--are noteworthy exceptions to the rhetorical commitment of Western countries to free trade as a major goal. These exceptions threatened to derail such high-profile negotiations as NAFTA and its predecessor, the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, as well as the Uruguay Round of the GATT.

Conventional wisdom did...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801444586
• ISBN13: 9780801444586
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher