"Occupational licensure, including regulation of the professions, dates back to the medieval period. While the guilds that performed this regulatory function have long since vanished, professional regulation continues to this day. For instance, in the United States, 22 percent of American...

1. The evolution of international trade theory, policy and institutions -- 2. The most favoured nation principle -- 3. Preferential trade agreements -- 4. National treatment -- 5. Dispute settlement -- 6. Trade, money and finance -- 7. Border measures : tariffs and quantitative restrictions --...