Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Structure and strategy
  • A theory of international economic structures
  • Structure, the state, and trade strategy
  • Part II. American trade strategy
  • Free riding on free trade, 1887-1897
  • British decline and American opportunism, 1897-1912
  • The politics of opportunistic accommodation, 1912-1930
  • Protection, retaliation, and response, 1930-1939
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix : relative labor productivity : definitional and operational considerations.