This volume focuses on factors that have contributed to the deterioration of the U.S. trade balance and the erosion of American competitiveness.

A discussion of the perceived widening wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers that analyzes the implications of such a gap upon trade in the context of NAFTA.

This book recommends the creation of a new, alternative legal structure for collective investment, the "managed investment trust."

Economists, trade policy experts, and legislators express their views on the competitive position of the United States in world trade.

In response to heightened competition, the larger insurance companies and various insurance industry groups have become interested in the concept of federal chartering and regulation.

This volume shows how a narrow focus on jobs and bilateral trade confrontations jeopardizes the real economic and security interests of the United States and its allies.

The author argues that a tax on imports commensurately creates a tax on exports, and that trade imbalances reflect capital flows between countries.

This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

This book critiques U.S. and Taiwanese policies that inhibit trade on their agricultural products.