Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange by Kenneth A. Oye

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Good condition paperback. Mostly clean pages and text that also have significantly scattered pen/pencil marks, notes, underlining or highlighting. Front/back cover is clean and bright and may have a bit of scuffing on the front/back or along the edges. Spine is tight and may have a bit of scuffing along edges. Satisfaction guaranteed.

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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.