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Yielding to French pressure, Germany on Monday softened its stance on stricter eurozone budget rules, officials said,…
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The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc $12.55 Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the ticket to personal freedom and a piece of the imagined consumer paradise of the West. For the authorities, the personal car was a private, mobile s…

The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and Mercosur $23.88 This book offers a compelling new interpretation of the proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) at the end of the twentieth century. Challenging the widespread assumption that RTAs should be seen as fundamentally similar economic initiatives to pursue free trade, Francesco Duina proposes that the world is reorganizing itself into regions that are highly distinctive and enduring. With evi…

Has Globalization Gone far Enough: The Costs of Fragmented Markets $15.19 How important are the remaining barriers to integration in international goods markets and how would eliminating them affect global and individual countries’ welfare? Major current initiatives, such as multilateral trade liberalization in the Doha Round and the efforts to complete the European Common Market, imply that additional integration is highly desirable, while the widespread use of the te…