Synopses & Reviews
From reviews of the first edition: The best, most balanced picture of the NAFTA] issue yet to appear.... Author William A. Orme, Jr. has covered Latin America as a journalist for 15 years, for the Economist and the Journal of Commerce as well as for the Washington Post.... He makes the case, firmly and clearly, that NAFTA isn't about a little cross-border turbulence at the very beginning; it's about the integration of yet another brawny adolescent economy into a growing world. -- Boston Globe Orme] writes with wonderful clarity about the economic and political forces that produced the agreement. -- David S. Broder, Washington Post Orme understands that NAFTA is really about fundamentally changing Mexico's long-run economic future.... But as he] correctly points out, very modest direct effects do not make NAFTA an unimportant agreement for the United States. -- Lester Thurow, author, The Zero Sum Society
Understanding NAFTA was first published in 1993 as Continental Shift: Free Trade & the New North America. This edition includes a new introduction that brings the NAFTA story up through 1995.
Synopsis
Understanding NAFTA was first published in 1993 as Continental Shift: Free Trade & the New North America. This edition includes a new introduction that brings the NAFTA story up through 1995.
Synopsis
From reviews of the first edition: The best, most balanced picture of the NAFTA issue yet to appear.... Author William A. Orme, Jr. has covered Latin America as a journalist for 15 years, for the Economist and the Journal of Commerce as well as for the Washington Post.... He makes the case, firmly and clearly, that NAFTA isn't about a little cross-border turbulence at the very beginning; it's about the integration of yet another brawny adolescent economy into a growing world.--Boston Globe Orme writes with wonderful clarity about the economic and political forces that produced the agreement.--David S. Broder, Washington PostOrme understands that NAFTA is really about fundamentally changing Mexico's long-run economic future.... But as he correctly points out, very modest direct effects do not make NAFTA an unimportant agreement for the United States.--Lester Thurow, author, The Zero Sum Society
Understanding NAFTA was first published in 1993 as Continental Shift: Free Trade & the New North America. This edition includes a new introduction that brings the NAFTA story up through 1995.
Synopsis
'Orme understands that NAFTA is really about fundamentally changing Mexico's long-run economic future. . . But as (he) correctly points out, very modest direct effects do not make NAFTA an unimportant agreement for the United States.' - Lester Thurow, author, The Zero Sum Society