Governments and Corporations in a Shrinking World: Trade and Innovation Policies in the United States, Europe, and Japan (review)

Abstract

For all the insights that it provides on the national motivations that produced the Free Trade Agreement, Making Free Trade Work fails to address the larger issue of the future of the Agreement. This book is guilty of having taken the economic and political contexts of the Free Trade Agreement for granted, and of completely disregarding two very serious realities. These realities—a Mexico ready and willing to deal and a Canada where the Free Trade Agreement is certain to have a difficult future—cannot be ignored.