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Trans-Pacific Partnership: An Assessment
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate about the role of trade in the United States in a generation. The TPP is one of the broadest and most progressive free trade agreements since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The essays in this Policy Analysis provide estimates of the TPP's benefits and costs and analyze more than 20 issues in the agreement, including environmental and labor standards, tariff schedules, investment and competition policy, intellectual property, ecommerce, services and financial services, government procurement, dispute settlement, and agriculture. Through extensive analysis of...
Globalization in an Age of Crisis
Along with its painful economic costs, the financial crisis of 2008 raised concerns over the future of international policy making. As in recessions past, new policy initiatives emerged, approaches that placed greater importance on protecting national interests than promoting international economic cooperation. Whether in fiscal or monetary policies, the control of currencies and capital flows, the regulation of finance, or the implementation of protectionist policies and barriers to trade, there has been an almost worldwide trend toward the prioritizing of national economic security. But what are the underlying economic causes of this trend, and what can economic research reveal about the p...
China's Growing Role in World Trade
In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in international trade to being one of the world's largest exporters, a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate outputs, and other goods, and both a recipient and source of foreign investment. Not surprisingly, China's economic dynamism has generated considerable attention and concern in the United States and beyond. While some analysts have warned of the potential pitfalls of China's rise—the loss of jobs, for example—others have highlighted the benefits of new market and investment opportunities for US firms. Bringing together an expert group of contributors, China's Growing Role in World Trade under...
Trade in Knowledge
Offers insights into what it means to trade in knowledge in today's technological and commercial environment.
The Patent-competition Interface in Developing Countries
This book proposes a development stage-specific approach to the patent-competition interface for developing countries, taking into account the different ways in which competition law regulation of patent exploitation practices interacts with various means of technology transfer.
Descendants of Jesse Hudson and Related Families
Jesse Hudson, son of John B. Hudson and Agnes, was born in about 1803 in South Carolina. His family moved to Kentucky in 1811. He married Matilda Everett in about 1823. They had nine known children. They moved to Arkansas in about 1830. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, California and Washington. Includes Howard, Northcott, Wood and related families.
The McQuitty, McQuiddy, McQuady Family
David McQuiddy, Sr. (d.ca. 1793), of Scottish lineage, married Nancy Arnold and immigrated from Antrim County, Ireland to Chester County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry in Ireland and Scotland.
