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David Vogel, a political scientist, is Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of four books, including Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America.
This interesting book systematically examines the original European
Community, the Single European Act, the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade and its 1979 standards code, the U.S.-Canada Free
Trade Area, and the more recent North American Free Trade
Agreement...Vogel finds that, while counterexamples do exist, trade
liberalization on balance has strongly reinforced
environment-improving regulations.
*Foreign Affairs*
Trading Up tackles the increasingly prominent and controversial
relationship between trade and regulatory/environmental
policies...[It] is well written, with a wealth of sometimes
off-beat detail, and will repay reading.
*Journal of Environmental Law*
This book is a pioneering contribution to the growing literature on
the relationship between trade policy and protective
regulation...[It] is a required reading not only for students and
practitioners of international trade but all those involved in the
making of environmental and regulatory standards.
*International Journal of Development Banking*
Trading Up is not the only book on trade and environment...But it
is the one of the most probable interest to most political
scientists. It opens the way to many research inquiries on the
outcomes of the various linkages and of their possible global
extension...The outcomes of these linkages and their successes or
failures may provide many dissertations, articles, and books in
coming decades.
*American Political Science Review*
When I teach international economics, students invariably ask me
how to distinguish a protectionist barrier to trade from a
legitimate health rule. This book provides a rich collection of
cases to show how international trade agreements and their dispute
settlement procedures have answered this question. The book centers
around the question of how increased economic integration affects
consumer safety...The results of the theoretical models are
supplemented through rigorous empirical studies. The endnotes of
each chapter provide crucial information to readers. The study is
comprehensive and well-documented with an exhaustive list of
references. The author provides a European perspective on the
[Federal Reserve's] exchange rate policies in comparison to those
of the Bundesbank's...This book is well-written, interesting and
informative, and particularly good at describing how trade and
regulatory disputes have been resolved. Teachers of international,
environmental, or consumer economics should note that this book is
written in an easily-accessible style, and is suitable for
students.
*Southern Economic Journal*
The book's coverage is broad. It treats efforts to promote free
trade within Europe and throughout the world. It examines consumer
issues, environmental issues, and the many issues that fall in
between. It encompasses legal, economic, and political disputes.
Few authors could have mastered all these topics, but fortunately
Vogel is up to the task...The basic message of Trading Up cannot be
ignored by students of the consumer movement...Vogel convinces us
that, for the foreseeable future, it will be impossible to study
the consumer or environmental movements without simultaneously
considering trade policy.
*Journal of Consumer Affairs*
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