作者：LaCroix, SJ; Grandy, C
摘要：The overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 offers an illuminating case study of the political economy of preferential trading relationships between large and small countries. The limited-term reciprocity treaty of 1876 between Hawaii and the United States generated problematic strategic dynamics, as the normal operation of the treaty gradually worsened Hawaii's bargaining position. This allowed the United States to extract better terms when the treaty expired in 1883 and to act opportunist...
作者：Alexander, BJ
摘要：A case study, a formal model, and an analysis of Census of Manufactures data support a conclusion that cost heterogeneity was a major source of the ''compliance crisis'' affecting a number of National Recovery Administration ''codes of fair competition.'' Key elements of the argument are assumptions that progressives at the NRA allowed majority coalitions of small, high-cost firms to impose codes in heterogeneous industries, and that these codes were designed by the high-cost firms under an ul...
