Understanding NAFTA: Mexico, Free Trade, and the New North America / Edition 2

by William A. Orme Jr.

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292760462
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	10/01/1996
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

William A. Orme Jr. is formerly the Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York City.

Table of Contents

• Introduction. After the Fall
• Chapter 1. Overview: NAFTA Myths and Misconceptions
• Chapter 2. The Origins and Importance of NAFTA
• Chapter 3. 'Via Positiva'
• Chapter 4. The Year of Living Dangerously: 1992
• Chapter 5. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: The NAFTA Numbers Game
• Chapter 6. Oil, Cars and Mortgages: The North American Investment Agreement
• Chapter 7. The Wearing of the Green
• Chapter 8. Lead or Silver: Mexico's "Guided" Democracy
• Chapter 9. The Tex-Mex Axis
• Chapter 10. What Will the Neighbors Say? Latin America After NAFTA
• Chapter 11. The Hidden Target: NAFTA and Japan
• Chapter 12. Toward a Common Market: The New North America Subject
• Index
• About the Author