In some key respects the income versus consumption tax choice is simply misunderstood by many people, including sophisticated practitioners.

This studyprovides a unique framework for analyzing the role of the GATS and the WTO in the liberalization and regulation of the financial services sector.

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.

Key economists for the government and for the Microsoft Corporation lay out their views on the key issues and then respond to the views presented by the opposing side.

This study providesa comprehensive description of the global insurance industry and details the current state of international agreements that govern trade in insurance.

This study providesa comprehensive description of the global insurance industry and details the current state of international agreements that govern trade in insurance.

The authors consider whether any special circumstances justify departure from free trade in telecommunications equipment.

This bookconcerns the world of transnational investing and the drift in U.S. policy towards conditional national treatment and the use of foreign investors as a trade tool.

This studyrebuts much of the traditional rationale forregulatory restrictions and provides a list of principles of regulation that would serve as a model for global accounting practices.

Contributors review the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates and the historic 1985 agreement by the Group of Five.