Mostly papers presented during the Third Annual Sewanee Economics Symposium, Oct. 1-3, 1981, sponsored by the Economics Dept. of the University of the South at Sewanee in cooperation with Sidney Weintraub, visiting appointee to the Kennedy Distinguished Professorship in Economics.
New disorders require new polices, says economist Sidney Weintraub. In this book he draws together many of his shorter writings to deal with economic problems that have defied orthodox monetary and fiscal remedies. Weintraub has long been noted for his vigorous criticism of both monetarist and Keynesian schools of thought for their failure to cope with disorders in our economy involving unemployment and inflation. Keynes, Keynesians, and Monet...
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
This text analyses the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and examines the future prospects following America's proposal for the widening of NAFTA to include the whole of the Western Hemisphere, with the aim of achieving hemispheric co-operation.
With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the U.S. proposal for the widening of NAFTA to include the whole of the Western Hemisphere, there is now a greater mutuality of interest between the U.S. and the rest of the hemisphere than at any time in the recent past. Mexico, Canada, and the United States continue to deepen and refine their understanding of the practical implications of NAFTA. Latin American and Caribb...
Sidney Weintraub examines the current relationship of Mexico and the United States as one of sustained dependence and dominance. The chapters examine the consequences of this imbalance in six major policy areas: trade, investment and finance, narcotics, energy, migration, and the border.
