Research Catalog

Title

Comparative disadvantages? : social regulations and the global economy / Pietro S. Nivola, editor.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Nivola, Pietro S.

Description

x, 368 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The book concludes that in a global economy the burden-some regulations of foreign countries deserve attention, but increasingly so do the burdens that American adversarial legalism imposes on this country and sometimes on others. Ideas and prospects for correcting the problem are discussed throughout.

Subjects

• Law > Economic aspects > United States
• Trade regulation > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-359) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Pietro S. Nivola -- 2. American Social Regulation Meets the Global Economy / Pietro S. Nivola -- Comment / Anne O. Krueger -- Comment / Henry R. Nau -- 3. Trouble for Us and Trouble for Them: Social Regulations as Trade Barriers / David Vogel -- Comment / I. M. Destler -- Comment / Sharyn O'Halloran -- 4. Adversarial Legalism: An International Perspective / Robert A. Kagan and Lee Axelrad -- Comment / S. Lael Brainard -- Comment / Robert E. Litan -- 5. U.S. Environmental Regulation in a More Competitive World / Marc Landy and Loren Cass -- Comment / Barry G. Rabe -- 6. On the Rights Track: The Americans with Disabilities Act / Thomas F. Burke -- Comment / Walter Y. Oi -- Comment / Walter K. Olson -- 7. Internationalizing Regulatory Reform / Roger G. Noll -- Bibliography of Cross-National Socio-Legal Studies.

ISBN

• 0815760868 (alk. paper)
• 081576085X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97021003

OCLC

• 36909066
• ocm36909066

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries