Date: 2018
Type: Article
Twenty-first-century trade agreements and the owl of Minerva
Annual review of resource economics, 2018, Vol. 10, pp. 161-183
HOEKMAN, Bernard M., NELSON, Douglas R., Twenty-first-century trade agreements and the owl of Minerva, Annual review of resource economics, 2018, Vol. 10, pp. 161-183
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The post-Second World War liberal trade order has been a driver of global economic growth and rising average per capita incomes. This order confronts increasing opposition, reflecting concerns about adjustment costs and distributional effects of globalization and the ability to pursue national policy goals. At the same time, the development of complex production relations distributed across many countries calls for cooperation on a variety of regulatory policies. Contrary to what is argued by opponents of globalization, this does not imply one-size-fits-all rules that constitute a threat to national sovereignty and democratic legitimation. There remains an important traditional integration agenda that centers on rule making by major trading powers on policies that generate negative international spillovers. But the core challenge for the political economy of twenty-first-century trade agreements is to support regulatory cooperation to better govern international production and address the nonpecuniary externalities associated with greater economic integration.
Additional information:
First published: 04 May 2018
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/60042
Full-text via DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-100517-023057
ISBN: 9780824347109
ISSN: 1941-1340
Publisher: Annual Reviews
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