Market Rules: Economic Union Reform and Intergovernmental Policy-Making in Australia and Canada

by Douglas M. Brown

Brown argues that internal barriers to trade and competition in these countries were significant obstacles to competition in the global economy and shows that the old market rules were rooted in longstanding political and regional compromises. He describes the process of detailed and difficult intergovernmental collaboration required for the EU, and now Canada and Australia, to produce new market rules. The resulting reforms created new regimes that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773522867
• ISBN13: 9780773522862
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 368 Pages