Customs Union Issue (Revised) - Hardcover

Viner, Jacob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199756120 ISBN 13: 9780199756124

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2014

Synopsis

The Customs Union Issue Jacob Viner's The Customs Union Issue is indispensible for international economists, political scientists, and historians. This new edition places the book in the context of Viner's work and the post-WWI economic and political situation, traces the reception of Viner's work, and discusses its continuing relevance

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Review

Due to the proliferation of preferential trading arrangements, the questions Viner addresses and some of his insights are more important and relevant today...Jacob Viner's classic work, The Customs Union Issue, edited and with an introduction by Paul Oslington, has a special significance.The book is accessible to a broad range of readers, including trade students, trade economists, policy-makers and business people. The book will benefit anyone who is interested in non-discriminatory free trade in general and in free trade agreements in particular. (Chunlai Chen, Economic Record)

Jacob Viner's seminal work on customs unions drew attention to the key fact that preferential free trade agreements are different from, and generally inferior to, non-discriminatory free trade. While the issues we confront today over the downside of preferential trade agreements have shifted and multiplied, Viner's work remains as a warning that policymakers cannot afford to ignore. (Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor (Economics, Law and International Affairs), Columbia University; author of Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade)

About the Author

Jacob Viner (1892-1970) was an Economist and Professor at Unviersity of Chicago and Princeton University. He was one of the early members of the modern day Chicago School of Economics. Paul Oslington is Professor of Economics at Australian Catholic University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199756120
• ISBN 13: 9780199756124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Oslington Paul