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What is the proper balance between free trade and protecting the American economy? "U.S. Trade Issues: A Reference Handbook" is a timely exploration of this vital and politically sensitive question, one that emerged as a crucial issue in the 2008 presidential election. Written by a former chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission, it provides an authoritative, accessible, and unbiased review of the defining events, principal players, and key controversies in U.S. trade policy.

"U.S. Trade Issues" describes American trade policies from the days of the republic to the present,...

• A lucid and balanced survey, based on extensive research in data and documents, accessible to the non-specialist
• Written by a renowned specialist in international economic relations with academic and government credentials
• Offers clear and engaging explanations of the main motors of...

Diverted by the dramatic military and political events of July 1944, few Americans realized the significance of an international conference taking place at Bretton Woods, a mountain resort in New Hampshire, far from the battle zones. There United Nations experts were completing plans for a world monetary and financial system that they hoped would create a prosperous, efficient global economy and avert economic tensions that might lead to another world war. Until the dollar crisis of 1971, decisions made at Bretton Woods provided the institutions and rules for international finance. The...

• A lucid and balanced survey, based on extensive research in data and documents, accessible to the non-specialist
• Written by a renowned specialist in international economic relations with academic and government credentials
• Offers clear and engaging explanations of the main motors of...

In 1973-1974 soaring commodity prices and an oil embargo alerted Americans to the twin dangers of resource exhaustion and dependence on unreliable foreign materials suppliers. This period seemed to mark a watershed in history as the United States shifted from the era of relative resource abundance to relative materials scarcity.

Alfred E. Eckes's comprehensive study shows that resource depletion and supply dislocations are not concerns unique to the 1970s. Since 1914, the quest for secure and stable supplies of industrial materials has been an important underlying theme of...