Seattle and Beyond: The WTO Millennium Round [Paperback]

Kathleen Macmillan (Author), Patrick Grady (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 16, 1999

This book is a comprehensive guide to the Millennium Round of multilateral trade negotiations which will be launched at the Third WTO Ministerial Meeting in Seattle in early December 1999. It deals in a readable way with the many difficult and controversial issues that will arise during the planned three-year negotiations. These include: the new trade areas like the environment, labour standards, e-commerce and competition policy; the issues that were new in the last Uruguay Round, such as trade in services and intellectual property rights, that are still far from resolved; and trade in agriculture, which is still badly in need of reform after a modest start in the last Round.

This book will provide all those interested in international business and domestic policy matters with the comprehensive overview they need to understand the dynamics of the WTO Millennium Round and the complex interaction of the trade and domestic policy issues.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A useful new guide to the issues can be found in Seattle and Beyond:The WTO Millennium Round. -- David Crane, Toronto Star, November 17, 1999,p.D2

From the Author

International trade has been the driving force in the global economy since World War II. It also touches on all aspects of domestic economic and social policies. Everyone thus has much at stake in the Millennium Round.

Our book provide all those interested in international business and domestic policy matters with the comprehensive overview they need to understand the dynamics of the WTO Millennium Round and the complex interaction of the trade and domestic policy issues.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 181 pages
• Publisher: Global Economics Ltd (November 16, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0968621007
• ISBN-13: 978-0968621004
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,304,678 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Patrick Grady was born in New York City, and raised in Danville, Illinois. After completing a Ph.D. in economics at the University Toronto, he worked in Canada for the Bank of Canada and the Department of Finance. Since leaving the Canadian Government, he has been an economic consultant in Canada and in over 30 countries overseas. He has written widely on economic policy, macroeconomics,and public finance in scholarly journals and the popular press.

Grady's non-fiction books or monographs include: "The State of the Art in Canadian Macroeconomic Modelling" (Department of Finance,1985); The Economic Consequences of Quebec Sovereignty (Fraser Institute, 1991); "Dividing the House: Preparing for a Canada without Quebec," with Alan Freeman (Harper Collins Canada, 1995); and "Seattle and Beyond: The WTO Millennium Round," with Katie Macmillan (1995); "The State of Economics in Canada: Festschrift in Honour of David Slater," with Andrew Sharpe (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001).

Grady has also written three novels. The first about the Vietnam War is entitled "Through the Picture Tube" (Robert D. Reed Publishers, 2000).
The second called "The Jade Head" (Robert D. Reed Publishers, 2004) is an adventure story that takes place in Belize. The most recent, "Royal Canadian Jihad," is about Islamic terrorism in Canada.