1. The creation of the GATT; 2. The negotiation of the GATT; 3. The rationales for the GATT; Annex A. Documents relating to the negotiations; Annex B. Negotiating committees and subcommittees.
Examines the motivations and contributions of the two main framers of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and the smaller role of other countries.
Douglas A. Irwin is Robert E. Maxwell Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Economics Department at Dartmouth College. He is author of Free Trade Under Fire (2002) and Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade (1996). Petros C. Mavroidis is Edwin Parker Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, New York, and Professor of Law at the University of Neuchatel. He is chief reporter of the American Law Institute (ALI) for the project 'Principle of International Trade: the WTO' and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Alan O. Sykes is James and Patricia Kowal Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. A leading expert on the application of economics to legal problems, Sykes has focused his research on international economic relations.
"...Irwin (Darthmouth College, Free Trade Under Fire, CH, Mar'03,
40-4109), Mavroidis (Columbia Law School), and Sykes (Stanford Law
School) provide an informative historical account of the creation
and evolution of the GATT, which is a cornerstone of of the
economic architecture after WW II was intended to establish a
rules-based system in the trade sector to parallel the rules-based
IMF structure in monetary system...excellent bibliography...Highly
Recommended..."
--I. Walter, New York University, CHOICE
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