Provincial Trade Wars

Author : K. Filip Palda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015038433341

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Provincial Trade Wars by K. Filip Palda Pdf

This book explains why Canadians must rid themselves of interprovincial trade barriers. Canada's provinces do almost as much trade with each other as they do with the rest of the world. But trade between the provinces is harder than with foreign countries. We trouble our own house with an amazing variety of barriers: professionals and tradespeople cannot move freely and practice where they wish, regulation makes it hard for investments to flow to where they are most needed, provincial governments give contracts to local firms even though out-of-province firms can do the job at a lower cost, Ottawa pays the most generous UI to regions with the highest unemployment and thereby encourages people to stay in parts of the country with little promise. The effects of such barriers on the economy are difficult to measure, which may be the reason that little has been done about them. But Canadians cannot afford to ignore their costs. The European Community is very close to the goal of ensuring free trade among its members. Unless we unlock our potential we may fall behind other countries and communities that have recognized the importance of internal as well as external free trade.

Author : Palda, Filip (K. Filip),Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Interprovincial commerce Canada
ISBN : OCLC:44112506

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Provincial Trade Wars [computer File] : why the Blockade Must End by Palda, Filip (K. Filip),Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.) Pdf

Author : Ryan Manucha
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780228015482

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Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups by Ryan Manucha Pdf

Gerard Comeau, a retiree living in rural New Brunswick, never thought his booze run would turn him into a Canadian hero. In 2012, after Comeau had driven to Quebec to purchase cheaper beer and crossed back into his home province, police officers participating in a low-stakes sting operation tailed and detained him, confiscated his haul, and levied a fine of less than $300. Countries routinely engage in trade wars and erect barriers to protect domestic industries from foreign competition. Comeau, however, was detained by the full force of the law for engaging in commerce with a Canadian business on the other side of a domestic border. With Comeau’s story as its starting point, Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups tells the fascinating tale of Canadian interprovincial trade. Ryan Manucha examines the historical, political, and legal forces that gave rise to the regulation of interprovincial commerce in Canada, the trade-offs that come with liberalized domestic free trade, and Canada’s enduring pursuit of economic union. The pandemic laid bare the vulnerability of global supply chains, the fickleness of foreign trading partners, and the surprising slipperiness of domestic trade. In a global climate of increasingly isolationist geopolitics, the history and possibility of Canada’s economic union, quirks and all, deserve careful attention.

Author : Matthew C. Klein,Michael Pettis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300244175

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Trade Wars are Class Wars by Matthew C. Klein,Michael Pettis Pdf

"This is a very important book."--Martin Wolf, Financial TimesA provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers Longlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award "Worth reading for [the authors'] insights into the history of trade and finance."--George Melloan, Wall Street Journal Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today's trade wars to decisions made by politicians and business leaders in China, Europe, and the United States over the past thirty years. Across the world, the rich have prospered while workers can no longer afford to buy what they produce, have lost their jobs, or have been forced into higher levels of debt. In this thought-provoking challenge to mainstream views, the authors provide a cohesive narrative that shows how the class wars of rising inequality are a threat to the global economy and international peace--and what we can do about it.

Author : J. M. Bumsted
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028938046

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Fur Trade Wars by J. M. Bumsted Pdf

At its height, the HBC’s holdings covered almost a tenth of the world’s land surface, stretching from the Arctic Ocean across the Prairies and the Rocky Mountains to British Columbia and Oregon. When the upstart North West Company of Montreal challenged the HBC supremacy, however, an ongoing battle erupted which changed the course of Canadian history.University of Manitoba historian J. M. (Jack) Bumsted has written a colourful, in—depth account of this titanic struggle. Combining astute scholarship with an accessible writing style, Bumsted’s Fur Trade Wars brings to life the dramatic events and memorable characters that helped shape a nation.

Author : Ka Zeng
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472026111

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Trade Threats, Trade Wars by Ka Zeng Pdf

This study of American trade policy addresses two puzzles associated with the use of aggressive bargaining tactics to open foreign markets. First, as the country with greater power and resources, why has the United States achieved more success in extracting concessions from some of its trading partners than others? Second, why is it that trade disputes between democratic and authoritarian states do not more frequently spark retaliatory actions than those between democratic pairs? Ka Zeng finds answers to both of these questions in the domestic repercussions of the structure of trade between the United States and its trading partners, whether the United States has a competitive trade relationship with its trading partner, or whether trade is complementary. This book offers practical policy prescriptions that promise to be of interest to trade policymakers and students of international trade policy. Ka Zeng is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Author : United States. Foreign Agricultural Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Commerce
ISBN : UOM:39015059471329

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Agricultural Trade Policy by United States. Foreign Agricultural Service Pdf

Author : Etel Solingen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108833561

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Geopolitics, Supply Chains, and International Relations in East Asia by Etel Solingen Pdf

An accessible overview of political, economic, and strategic dimensions of global supply chains in a changing global political economy.

Author : Alexander Begg
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553608

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Reporting the Resistance by Alexander Begg Pdf

Reporting the Resistance brings together two first-person accounts to give a view "from the ground" of the developments that shocked Canada and created the province of Manitoba. In 1869 and 1870, Begg and Hargrave were regular correspondents for (respectively) the Toronto Globe and the Montreal Herald. While neither man was a committed supporter of the Metis or Louis Riel, each gives a more complex, and more sympathetic, view of the resistance that is commonly expected from the Anglophone community of Red River. They describe, often from very different perspectives, the events of the resistance, as well as give insider accounts of the social and political background. Largely unreprinted until now, this correspondence remains a relatively untapped resource for contemporary views of the resistance. These are the Red River's own accounts, and are often quite different from the perspective of eastern observers.

Author : Bryan P. Schwartz, et al.
Publisher : Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law: Volume XIX by Bryan P. Schwartz, et al. Pdf

The Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law provides reviews and articles on developments in the areas of international trade, business, & economy.

Author : Ryan Manucha
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780228015499

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Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups by Ryan Manucha Pdf

Gerard Comeau, a retiree living in rural New Brunswick, never thought his booze run would turn him into a Canadian hero. In 2012, after Comeau had driven to Quebec to purchase cheaper beer and crossed back into his home province, police officers participating in a low-stakes sting operation tailed and detained him, confiscated his haul, and levied a fine of less than $300. Countries routinely engage in trade wars and erect barriers to protect domestic industries from foreign competition. Comeau, however, was detained by the full force of the law for engaging in commerce with a Canadian business on the other side of a domestic border. With Comeau’s story as its starting point, Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups tells the fascinating tale of Canadian interprovincial trade. Ryan Manucha examines the historical, political, and legal forces that gave rise to the regulation of interprovincial commerce in Canada, the trade-offs that come with liberalized domestic free trade, and Canada’s enduring pursuit of economic union. The pandemic laid bare the vulnerability of global supply chains, the fickleness of foreign trading partners, and the surprising slipperiness of domestic trade. In a global climate of increasingly isolationist geopolitics, the history and possibility of Canada’s economic union, quirks and all, deserve careful attention.

Author : Matthew C. Klein,Michael Pettis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300252750

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Trade Wars Are Class Wars by Matthew C. Klein,Michael Pettis Pdf

A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today’s trade wars to decisions made by politicians and business leaders in China, Europe, and the United States over the past thirty years. Across the world, the rich have prospered while workers can no longer afford to buy what they produce, have lost their jobs, or have been forced into higher levels of debt. In this thought-provoking challenge to mainstream views, the authors provide a cohesive narrative that shows how the class wars of rising inequality are a threat to the global economy and international peace—and what we can do about it.

Author : David Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351491709

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Secession, State, and Liberty by David Gordon Pdf

The political impulse to secede - to attempt to separate from central government control - is a conspicuous feature of the post-cold war world. It is alive and growing in Canada, Russia, China, Italy, Belgium, Britain, and even the United States Yet secession remains one of the least studied and least understood of all historical and political phenomena. The contributors to this volume have filled this gap with wide-ranging investigations - rooted in history, political philosophy, ethics, and economic theory - of secessionist movements in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Author : Zeng, Ka,Liang, Wei
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839105708

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Research Handbook on Trade Wars by Zeng, Ka,Liang, Wei Pdf

The Research Handbook on Trade Wars presents an informative and in-depth account of the origins, dynamics, and implications of trade wars, which are growing both in scale and scope in today’s increasingly interdependent global economy. Providing the frameworks necessary for understanding the political and economic logics of trade wars, this Handbook will be a valuable source of reference for researchers, government officials, businesses, and post-graduate students interested in international political economy, international economics, economic statecraft, public policy, and international relations.

Author : Anjali Kumar
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821330470

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China by Anjali Kumar Pdf

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 251. This study investigates the conflicting viewpoints of small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and banks: the SMEs contend that the supply of bank financing is largely unavailable to them, while banks maintain that lending to these enterprises remains low because of lack of demand. Surveys were conducted among enterprises to assess demand and sources of finance, and financial institutions were interviewed to analyze the reasons for constraints on the supply side. Results show that credit is rarely granted for starting a new business. Thus, the smaller the enterprise, the greater the equity finance share of the initial investment. Evidence also suggests that exploitation of highly profitable opportunities could be accelerated by these enterprises if they had greater access to external financing. The study concludes that financial liberalization has had little effect on the access of SMEs to bank credit. It explains why banks have shown little interest in developing these enterprises as a market niche and suggests techniques that banks could adopt to overcome lending risks.