Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. Negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) proceed simultaneously … negotiation technique and a constitutive metaphor. It does not cause an outcome to negotiations, whether in a round or the daily … consider rounds of negotiations, the consensus principle, diffuse reciprocity, critical mass decision making, the WTO acquis …

The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first develop a contractarian theory of redistribution. The existence of rules … in trade. The second purpose of the paper is to develop a theory of institutions that implement optimal allocations. We …