Regional Trade Agreements in the Gatt/Wto: Artical XXIV and the Internal Trade Requirement

by James Mathis

The economic theory of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs), or discriminatory trade liberalization for and among a subset ofnations, was first analyzed with fun- damental and startling insight by Jacob Viner (1950). He destroyed the intuition that any move towards free trade was welfare-enhancing, for the country itself or for the world, or for both. He introduced us memorably to the notion of trade di- verting -- and here, he meant not diversion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9067041394
• ISBN13: 9789067041393
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"