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Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange: World Political Economy in the 1930s and 1980s
Contributor(s): Oye, Kenneth A. (Author)
ISBN: 0691000832     ISBN-13: 9780691000831
Publisher: Princeton University Press
OUR PRICE:   $55.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 1993
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Annotation: ""Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange" is in my judgment an important piece of work that makes major interpretive and theoretical contributions. Oye succeeds in the rarely achieved task of putting old facts in a new light. At the theoretical level, he goes beyond the increasingly fruitless confrontation of hegemonic, regime-oriented, and pluralistic bargaining theories to make some interesting arguments about the conditions under which each of these patterns of action leads to cooperation."--Robert O. Keohane, Harvard University
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- Business & Economics | International - Economics
- Business & Economics | Economics - General
Dewey: 382.3
LCCN: 91041019
Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.81 lbs) 252 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1950-1999
- Chronological Period - 1930's
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Chronological Period - 1900-1949
- Chronological Period - 1950's
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Chronological Period - 1970's
- Chronological Period - 1980's
 
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Did bilateral and regional bargaining choke off international commerce and finance in the 1930s and prolong the Great Depression? Is the open world economic system now being placed at risk by explicitly discriminatory practices that erode respect for the GATT, the IMF, and the IBRD? Most political economists would answer in the affirmative, warning that bilateral and regional preferences are at best inefficient and at worst catastrophic. By contrast, Kenneth Oye shows how economic discrimination can foster international economic openness by facilitating political exchange.