for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …

"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional … sector policies are generated without a formal model of global markets or even price elasticity estimates. "--World Bank web …

-the opposite of what is usually thought of when considering inter-sector trade retaliation. Phasing down World Trade Organization … import restrictions when international prices slump. To date there is no parallel discipline in the World Trade Organization … that limits increases in export restrictions when prices spike upward, however. Bringing such discipline through new World …