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Comparative Disadvantages? - Social Regulations and the Global Economy (Paperback)
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The American economy is in many ways uniquely unfettered. Nowhere
else in the industrial world is it easier to set up a discount
store, start a new airline, or shrink a payroll. But extensive
economic deregulation has been matched by a burgeoning body of
social law cracking down on business. From shareholder litigation
and strict product liability to punitive environmental controls and
workplace rules, entrepreneurs run a gauntlet of legal perils. The
costs of this expanding and contentious agenda often exceed the
value of its social benefits. The projected annual costs over
benefits of the 1990 Clean Air Act, for instance, surpass the
estimated value of U.S. exports blocked by all of Japan's known
import restrictions. How sustainable is this situation amid the
pressures of globalization? The contributors to this volume explore
the question from a variety of perspectives. U.S. policymakers
frequently criticize the rest of the world for policies and
practices that are said to constrict American commerce. Yet some
trade disputes have been ignited by questionable rules made in the
United States. Indeed, legal strictures have posed barriers to
imports and possibly discouraged foreign investors, as well as
interfered with some U.S. exports. At times the social regulatory
regime has also stirred abrasive efforts to extend U.S. sanctions
to foreign soil. Even if those frictions have been of minor
consequences so far, inefficient legal and regulatory conventions
exact a toll on U.S. productivity growth. The book concludes that
in a global economy the burdensome regulations of foreign countries
deserve attention, but increasingly so do the burdens that American
" adversarial legalism" imposes on itself and sometimes on others.
Ideas and prospects for correcting the problem are discussed
throughout. The contributors include Lee Axelrad, Thomas F. Burke,
Loren Cass, Robert A. Kagan, Mark K. Landy, Roger G. Noll, and
David Vogel.
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