Fair Trade: Market-Driven Ethical Consumption

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'Today, Fair Trade finds itself at a crucial point in its evolution from alternative trading mechanism to a mainstream economic model. As the only certifier in the largest Fair Trade market in the world, TransFair USA has observed the explosive growth in consumer awareness and business interest in Fair Trade certification. New research into the progress of Fair Trade to date and, crucially, its key future directions is urgently needed. Fair Trade is therefore a valuable and timely contribution.The range and depth of the book is considerable. It is international in outlook and engages with a broad spectrum of theory and thinking. Its style is approachable yet rigorous. I would strongly recommend it to industry, academics, students, policy-makers and the interested reader in general'

- Paul Rice, CEO, TransFair USA

'This work - a powerful study of the maelstrom of issues and cross currents in the Fair Trade and Development movements is long overdue. Through case studies, quantative analysis and reasoned arguement, this work makes its case with cogent force'

- Hamish Renton, Product Manager Food You Can Trust, Tesco

'With the fair trade sector growing rapidly, it is vital that the concept is understood properly and the future potential mapped out. Fair Trade provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of fair trade which make it a "must read" for everyone from casual buyer right through to seasoned producer. Here's your chance to see how you can easily change the world for the better'

- Mel Young, editor-in-chief, New Consumer, Britain's only fair trade magazine, www.newconsumer.org.

Fair Trade is at a crucial moment in its evolution from alternative trading mechanism to mainstream economic model. This timely and thoughtful book looks at the strategic future for Fair Trade.

Each chapter spearheads a key area of Fair Trade thinking and theory and the political, legal and economic context of Fair Trade is given careful scrutiny. Difficult questions are tackled such as `What is the role and value of corporate social responsibility?' and `What is the brand meaning of Fair Trade?'

Throughout, readers are supported by:

- Revealing case studies and useful data analysis;

- Concise histories of different Fair Trade organisations;

- Chapter summaries and conclusions.

Customer Reviews:

The (dated) Fair Trade Bible.......2007-07-27

I've used this book dozens of times as a reference to speeches I've given at a Fair Trade shop to educate customers. In and around the year 2004, it was the Fair Trade Bible. Well researched, all-inclusive and not overly academic (with one exception being the chapter on Marketing - maybe I just have to brush up on my Marketing knowledge).

Now, most of the conclusions that were drawn from the book may still be valid but the statistics need massive updating. Perhaps new conclusions depending upon the updated statistics.

One huge draw back is the book is so expensive for nothing more than a paper back. I've only had it for about a month and the cover is already starting to curl.

But again, if you want Fair Trade 101, look no further. If you wish to become an expert, there is no book that can do that, but this is a solid first step.

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This is a 5 packet of the INSIGHT Inventory each with a 6-page interpretive guide

Consultants and trainers have come to appreciate the INSIGHT Inventory's ease of use combined with practical skill development. Unlike other instruments that require lengthy, expensive certification, or that apply classifications that stereotype users, INSIGHT's common sense format provides a balanced view of behavior.

Self-scored within 15 minutes, INSIGHT moves quickly from developing a profile to applying the learning. Participants develop important behavior skills, including how to flex their style to manage conflict, and facilitate team work. The instrument's clarity and uncomplicated format allow you to integrate it into existing training, or make it the center piece of a program.

Use INSIGHT for:

Team Building
Conflict and Stress Management
Leadership Training
Interpersonal Skills, Sales, and Customer Service
Negotiation skills training

Have you ever used Myers-Briggs in the past and are looking for something easier to use? Have you used the DISC or one of the quadrant systems and want something valid that doesn't label participants with a letter or technical acronym? If so, take our free INSIGHT offer. Myers-Briggs™ Type Indicator INSIGHT Inventory ®

-- CLASSIFICATION --

Type Indicator: the Myers-Briggs provides type codes, i.e., ENFP, INTJ, INFJ, etc. Emphasis is on understanding the characteristics of the 16 different types. Types are seen as stable and non-changing. Trait Measure: Insight provides relative strength of behavior tendencies on four traits. The interpretation emphasizes the strength of each individual trait and what environments a behavior is displayed in. Traits are viewed as relatively enduring yet flexible and changeable based on environmental influences.

-- RESULTS --

The 16 Type classifications based on extremes of four opposite indices:
introversion-extroversion
sensing-intuition
thinking-feeling
judging-perception
The sixteen types: ISTJ, ISFJ, INFJ, INTJ, ISTP, ISFP, INFP, INTP, ESTP, ESFP, ENTP, ESTJ, ESFJ, ENFJ, ENTJ Two profiles, work style and personal style, are produced reflecting the interaction of the four personality traits and influences in each of the two environments. The four traits:
getting your way (direct or indirect)
responding to people (outgoing or reserved)
pacing activity (steady or urgent)
dealing with details (unstructured or precise)

-- SYSTEM OF RATING --

Self-rating only: results reflect the test taker's view of him/herself. Both self-rating and 360° feedback from others. Important learning occurs when one compares the self-perception profile to feedback profiles that are generated from the perceptions of others.

-- ADMINISTRATION TIME --

Form G: 94 items, 30 minutes to score and complete 6-8 minutes to complete 5-7 minutes to score and plot results

Manual of acute toxicity: Interpretation and data base for 410 chemicals and 66 species of freshwater animals (Resource publication / United States Department ... of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service)
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Manual of acute toxicity: Interpretation and data base for 410 chemicals and 66 species of freshwater animals (Resource publication / United States Department ... of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service)
F. L Mayer
Manufacturer: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Manual of Acute Toxicity: Interpretation and Data Base for 410 Chemicals and 66 Species of Freshwater Animals.
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Manual of Acute Toxicity: Interpretation and Data Base for 410 Chemicals and 66 Species of Freshwater Animals.

Manufacturer: US Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GKM0E8

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INHALT LANG: Ein Überblick: Paradigmatische Konstruktionen: Unser heutiges Wirklichkeits-Verständnis; Wirklichkeits-Pluralismus; Entstehen von Wirklichkeiten.- Lebendiger Vollzug von Wirklichkeiten: Farbe als Wirklichkeit: Goethes Farbenlehre; Physische Farben; Newtons Farben des Lichts; Zwei Wirklichkeiten.- Fruchtbare Vielfalt: Heilkundliche Wirklichkeiten: Chinesische Lebenswirklichkeit, Chinesische Medizin, Ein simultanes Massenphänomen; Mikro-Wirklichkeiten: Spiele als Mikro-Wirklichkeiten, Mikro-Wirklichkeiten im weiteren Sinn.- Simultane und sequenzielle Wirklichkeiten der Lebenswelt: Wirklichkeiten eines Verbrechens: Ein Beispiel aus der japanischen Literatur, Eine neue Erzählung des Rashomon-Textes, Vergewaltigung und Tod; Verwandlung von Wirklichkeiten: Siddhartha. Eine indische Dichtung.- Okkulte Wirklichkeiten und andere Geheimlehren: Magie und Dämonie: Weissagung; Zauber und Dämonen; Schamanen; Magie und Dämonie als Wirklichkeit?.- Gefährliche Verabsolutierungen: Totalitäre Wirklichkeiten: Wahnsinn als totalitäre Wirklichkeit; Kraftentfaltung in einer totalitären Wirklichkeit; Extremsituationen in totalitären Wirklichkeiten.- Resümée: Chance und Bedrängnis: Wirklichkeit ist eine Konstruktion. Der Urgrund ist ohne Eigenschaften; Wirklichkeiten als Gewordenes; Die Lebenswirklichkeit als Ausgangsbasis; Vielfalt der Sprache – Vielfalt der Bilder; Mikro- und Makro-Wirklichkeiten; Irrationale Wirklichkeiten?; Verabsolutierte Wirklichkeiten.

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The last 25 years have seen a tremendous growth in the application of statistical and modelling techniques to ecological problems. This expansion has been accelerated by the increasing availability of software, books and computing power. However, the suitability of some of these approaches to data analysis, in a relatively knowledge-poor discipline such as ecology, can be questioned on grounds of appropriateness and robustness. One reason for these concerns is that many ecological problems are at best poorly defined and most lack algorithmic solutions. Machine learning methods offer the potential for a different approach to these difficult problems.
One definition of machine learning is that it is concerned with inducing knowledge from data, where the data could be patterns in a game of chess or patterns in the species composition of natural communities. Unfortunately ecologists have little experience of these relatively recent and novel approaches to understanding data. This is a problem that is made more complex because there is no simple taxonomy of machine learning methods and there are relatively few examples in the mainstream ecological literature to encourage exploration.
This is the first text aimed at introducing machine learning methods to a readership of professional ecologists. All but one of the chapters have been written by ecologists and biologists who highlight the application of a particular method to a particular class of problem. Examples include the identification of species, optimal mate choice, predicting species distributions and modelling landscape features. A group of experienced machine learning workers, who have become interested in environmental problems, have written a chapter that demonstrates how machine learning methods can be used to discover equations that describe the dynamic behaviour of ecological systems. The final chapter reviews `real learning', offering the potential for greater dialogue between the biological and machine learning communities.

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Dirt Rider magazine publishes monthly one-page riding technique features. Dirt Rider presents these tip features by showing a well-known pro rider going step-by-step through a difficult obstacle. This book features the last five years of these motocross riding techniques in one volume.

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With hundreds of market listings and dozens of articles, 2005 Children's Writer's & Illustrators Market is still the #1 reference for children's writer's and illustrators. Packed with invaluable information and insider advice, this edition features:

*750 updated listings, with 125 markets new to this edition

*A spectrum of opportunities for writers and illustrators to sell their work, including book publishers and magazines, agents and art reps, greeting cards and play publishers

*Advice from some of the top names in the world of children's literature today, including author Jerry Spinelli and illustrator J. Otto Seibold

No other reference on the shelf today provides as many listings specifically for children's writers, illustrators, and their work.

Customer Reviews:

Good Place To Start.......2005-10-25

There are a lot of turnovers in the publishing business and therefore it is unwise to trust this book to be completely accurate. It just takes too long for it to go from research to the book store shelf for all the entries to correct. However, it is still a great place to start your search for a publisher of your creative work. Another great place is the BOOK STORE. Find the books you like, flip them over, write down the publisher, and look them up online.

I am an illustrator and am disappointed with the focus on writing and creative writing ideas/outlets. This is a fact of life for me and other illustrators with books like this however. There are many more middle-aged Moms out there that want to publish there great new idea for a book than there are emerging illustrators. And there are way too many of all of us alltogether - the competition is tough. If you use this book, use it as initial research and then start your own database.

Everything you need.......2005-10-01

If you're writing or illustrating a children's book, this is your bible. It has everything you need to know to complete the process.
Helpful listings of markets and plenty of useful advice for beginning and established writers.

ALMOST EXCELLENT.......2005-07-20

2005 CHILDREN WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS MARKET BOOK IS ALMOST EXCELLENT BUT NOT QUITE,IT HAS FALL BACKS- THEREFORE AT TIMES MOST DISAPPOINTED. BUT ON THE WHOLE IT HAS SERVED ITS PURPOSE-

Great Resource.......2005-03-25

This is a great resource for those interested in being a published writer or illustrator! Thanks~

Essential market guide for writers and illustrators.......2004-09-29

This review is excerpted from a longer review on my web site, The Purple Crayon.

This is essentially an inexpensive annual "yellow pages" of children's publishing for authors and illustrators in the United States, an alternative to much more expensive and harder-to-use tomes such as Literary Market Place. This year's edition is, as usual, an extremely useful book for a children's book writer or illustrator.

Contents: Most of CWIM is taken up by the Markets section, which includes listings of publishers of books, magazines, greeting cards/puzzles/games, and plays, with a special sub-category for young writers and illustrators. The Book Publishers part is over 100 pages long, with about 200 entries, a little longer than last year. Listings as usual range from a few lines to a half page, and include such information as as the publisher's address, names and titles of editors and art directors, a brief description of their publishing program, sample titles, how to approach them, standard contract terms, and tips (direct quotes from the publisher's staff.) The Magazines part of this section is also pretty substantial, at about 40 pages long.

Before the Markets section come a variety of articles, of which the first four--"Just Starting?", "How to Use This Book," "Before Your First Sale," and "Running Your Business"-cover the same ground every year. Twelve additional articles are new to this edition. I particularly liked "Critique Group Disfunction and What to Do About It," and "The Pitch," which provides helpful guidance in crafting query letters and the like. But there are also articles for illustrators, and on marketing, and even on niche markets (the puzzle market and writing licensed product). Following these articles come lengthy interviews with Newbery winner Jerry Spinelli and the quirky illustrator J. otto Seibold, and a very interesting "First Books" feature, which focuses on first books published by independent publishers.

After the Markets section come a variety of materials in the Resources: listings of agents and art reps; 3 more "insider" pieces; organizations, conferences, and workshops; book, magazine, and web resources; a glossary; and a useful index to the publisher listings, which enables you to find publishers by age level or subject.

The length of the book is listed as being 442 pages, making it 10% longer than last year. The publishers claim over 700 updated listings, which by my reckoning means just about every listing has been updated, and over 100 new ones (the back cover states there are a total of 740 listings of book and magazine publishers, agents, and art reps).

Comments: CWIM continues to be the leading market guide for children's writers and illustrators with the 2005 edition. I like the feature articles, but the meat of CWIM comes in the listings, which get significantly updated every year. Yes, you could gather much of the information you'll find in it on your own, through diligent searches online, phone calls, and guideline and catalog requests to publishers. But the time spent doing that is time lost from your real work.

So how good is the Markets section? I've checked through the listings of book publishers, conferences, and agents, which are the areas I am best qualified to judge, and I found very little that did not seem to me to be both accurate and up-to-date. This year's edition, incidentally, came out in August, two months or more earlier than its usual release date in October or November. Listings are up-to-date, so far as I can tell, through April of 2004.

Children's book writers and illustrators need this, and should strongly consider buying a new edition every year--or at least when your scribbled-in updates are getting out of hand.

Roar Softly and Carry a Great Lipstick: 28 Women Writers on Life, Sex, and Survival
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I can't recommend it enough

Great book!

I'm Not Cheating

Like a locomotive.

MEOW

Roar Softly and Carry a Great Lipstick: 28 Women Writers on Life, Sex, and Survival

Manufacturer: New World Library
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1930722389

Book Description

The title of this anthology riffs on Teddy Roosevelt's phallocentric motto, "Speak softly, and carry a big stick." Few American women today are interested in cultivating a Teddyesque machismo — but in Roar Softly, women writers recount witty and poignant tales of modern-day survival, from finding love (and sex) as a single mom to overcoming anorexia to adopting a child. Not only do their stories offer reassurance that no woman is alone in her struggles, but they also suggest better battle strategies — more womanly battle strategies, if you will — for those who shrink from the "muscle your way through" approach. As each essay demonstrates, women can overcome the challenges of their lives not only with strength, but also with grace. Contributors include Anne Lamott, Edwidge Danticat, Mary Roach, Elizabeth Fishel, Laura Fraser, and Anneli Rufus.

Customer Reviews:

I can't recommend it enough.......2005-11-12

It's a very good book! The quality of writing was really good, and the essays themselves were inspiring in more ways than one. It was a great feeling reading what other women had to say on subjects I myself have confronted. Some of them even sounded the way I did! It is a really good book for women to read, because of all we have in common.
I have recommended it to some men at work, too, and at least one is started to read it. I told him to throw away all his relationship books and start learning the way women perceive and feel. I'm glad to say he's taken me up on it and is also enjoying the book.

Great book!.......2005-08-29

These are great short essays. Perfect for a mom to read, since most moms don't have much extra time and it's hard to read a long book. It's hard to put it down.

I'm Not Cheating.......2004-12-11

Confession: I'm one of the contributors to this book. But it's still literarily acceptable for me to review it because no one was more surprised than I at the quality of the writing (I speak not of my own here), the diversity of the topics and perspectives, the laughs, the tears. I don't usually read anthologies (although I'd better start, because I'm editing one as we speak) but this one is, how you say, GOOD.

Like a locomotive........2004-12-02

This book is not an ice cream sandwich.
This book is not a pair of jeans.
This book is not the last ten minutes of your commute to work.

This book is your mother crying when her mother died.
This book is that day with your best friend 22 years ago that still makes you smile and breath hard when you think of it.
This book is that time you laughed so hard your knees buckled.
This book is that time you were nearly killed.

And it takes you there like three feet from a thundering locomotive.

MEOW.......2004-11-05

This book is sizzzzlin!!! The title of this book should be Purrrr, Meow, Howl, and Roar Softly because the essays will have you doing just that.

Customer Service: Career Success Through Customer Satisfaction (NetEffect Series) (3rd Edition) (NetEffect Series)
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Customer Service: Career Success Through Customer Satisfaction (NetEffect Series) (3rd Edition) (NetEffect Series)
Paul R. Timm
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback

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KET BENEFIT: This book ties together the best information from trade books and textbooks, and then adds a clear and usable process for developing the kinds of skills, attitudes, and thinking patterns needed to win customer loyalty. The coverage includes positive attitude, customer turnoffs, dissatisfied customers, customer expectations, customer loyalty, winning telephone techniques, and more. This book is for employees and managers of customer service departments and human resource training departments.

Customer Service: Career Success through Customer Satisfaction (NetEffect Series) (2nd Edition)

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Customer Service: Career Success through Customer Satisfaction (NetEffect Series) (2nd Edition)
Paul R. Timm
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ASIN: B000OIHBA0

Customer Service: Career Success Through Customer Satisfaction (NetEffect Series), 3e

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Customer Service: Career Success Through Customer Satisfaction (NetEffect Series), 3e
Brigham Young University Paul R. Timm
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ASIN: B000OIRTNO

Globalization at What Price?: Economic Change and Daily Life
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An Excellent Brief But Complete Description of Globalization

Great little, critical book on globalization

Globalization at What Price?: Economic Change and Daily Life
Pamela K. Brubaker
Manufacturer: Pilgrim Press
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Binding: Paperback

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An Excellent Brief But Complete Description of Globalization.......2004-04-05

If you are looking for a quick introduction to the issues of globalization this is the book for you. Brubaker clearly and succinctly demystifies this complex phenomenon.

She also describes ethical issues circling the many problems of resource distribution, the environment, and national sovereignty. She writes from the perspective of a Christian ethicist but anyone will profit from her discussion.

Great little, critical book on globalization.......2002-12-15

This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to catch up quickly on what motivated the 1999 WTO demonstrations in Seattle, WA. Brubaker explains what the World Bank, IMF, and World Trade Organization are, and their effects on the developing world -- from injustices in the maquiladoras at the U.S.-Mexican border to Wal-Mart subcontractors in China. Her critical analysis of the excess power wielded by corporate interests is inspired by her humanitarianism, feminism, environmentalism, and Christian faith. This work contains not just a diagnosis of the problems, but activist solutions, even feasible for the uninitiated.
There are some heavier duty books on the topic which offer more painstaking treatment of the structure of the global economic institutions and issues; but many of those are not what the intelligent, yet common reader is looking for. This one has the virtue of being an informed, quick read that explains the terrain and leaves us with something to do once we've put the book down. (For the detail-oriented, though, this work is shot-through with footnotes to up-to-the-minute references.)

Globalization at What Price?: Economic Change and Daily Life.(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: Theological Studies

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Globalization at What Price?: Economic Change and Daily Life.(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: Theological Studies
James P. Bailey
Manufacturer: Theological Studies, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Theological Studies, published by Theological Studies, Inc. on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3672 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Globalization at What Price?: Economic Change and Daily Life.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Author: James P. Bailey
Publication: Theological Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Theological Studies, Inc.
Volume: 64 Issue: 1 Page: 199(1)

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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Mismanaged Trade by Kenneth Flamm.......2003-10-28

Ken Flamm is an economist and senior fellow in the Foreign Policy studies program at the Brookings Institution. In the late 1980s, Flamm published two highly influential books on the role of the governments of advanced industrial nations in the development of the computer industry -- Targeting the Computer (1987) and Creating the Computer (1988). In these books, he provided evidence against the arguments of authors like George Gilder and industrialists like T.J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductors that the role of government in creating the computer industry and other high technology industries in the United States was negligible.

Flamm argues in this long but ultimately rewarding book that it was only after the development of large-scale integrated circuits in the United States took the fledgling Japanese computer industry by surprise in the early 1970s that the Japanese government and industry focused on developing indigenous technologies for semiconductors. A series of joint government-industry projects succeeded by the end of the 1970s in enabling the Japanese semiconductor industry, or at least the part of it that produced DRAMs (dynamic random access memories), to become fully competitive with the U.S. industry.

Since demand for integrated circuits was rapidly expanding in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the U.S. semiconductor industry was willing to share the market with Japanese producers. Beginning in 1984, however, a sharp downturn in demand for semiconductors resulted in a shakeout in the industry, but only U.S. firms left the market while Japanese producers kept producing and selling at substantially lower prices. This led to the filing of anti-dumping petitions on the part of U.S. producers, upon which the Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission ruled favorably in 1985 and 1986.

Flamm claims, however, that Japanese pricing during this period could be explained as "a predictable outcome of normal market forces" (p. 428) and that U.S. antidumping laws were not designed -- as they should have been -- to take forward pricing behavior into account. Forward pricing is pricing below average costs in the short term so that demand for a firm's products will allow it to increase production in the long term, eventually reducing average costs so that they are below market prices. Forward pricing is rational for industries that have steep learning curves: that is, where average costs descend rapidly with cumulative production.

Successful antidumping petitions filed by U.S. firms against Japanese firms led to a major trade dispute and eventually to a negotiated settlement in the form of the Semiconductor Trade Arrangement (STA) of 1986. Under the STA, Japanese firms agreed to a system of floor prices for sales of their semiconductors in the United States and third-country markets, the Japanese government agreed to collect statistics on semiconductor production costs and prices, and the Japanese market was pledged to increase the sale of foreign-made semiconductors in Japan (to 20 percent of the market from the current level of around 10 percent).

The main argument of Flamm's book is that U.S. trade policy in the dispute was flawed, that it confused rational "forward pricing" with dumping (with a predatory intent) and that it unintentionally encouraged the formation of a Japanese semiconductor cartel, first under the administrative guidance of the Japanese government's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and later as a purely private affair among Japanese semiconductor firms.

Flamm does an excellent job of proving that this is what happened by analyzing a variety of data series on prices and costs and juxtaposing this with summaries of press reports and interview data. He shows, in particular, that there were wide regional differences in spot market prices in North America, Western Europe, and Asia that probably had their origins in the reduced investments in Japanese productive capacity engineered first by MITI and later by the industry itself to defuse the trade dispute.

On the basis of his analysis of the semiconductor dispute, Flamm recommends three main policy changes: (1) using marginal costs rather than average costs as the basis for antidumping rulings; (2) encouraging stricter enforcement of antitrust laws in foreign countries; and (3) multilateralizing the negotiations that led to the original U.S.-Japanese Semiconductor Trade Arrangement (STA) as a way of developing multilateral rules for high technology more generally. All of these recommendations are worthy of serious consideration, but the third is probably the most likely to be successfully implemented.

a trip down memory lane.......2001-04-06

This is a highly detailed account of US trade policy toward the semiconductor industry, most of which involved Japan, America's primary competitor in this industry during the 1980s. The book draws on extensive secondary source materials (mostly industry publications) and interviews conducted by the author. Flamm is not shy about criticizing the work of others with whom he disagrees (Laura Tyson and David Yoffie, for example), but oddly fails to cite others whose parallel analyses predate this book (i.e. Andrew Dick on forward pricing strategies or Fred Bergsten and Marcus Noland on the quantitative impact of the semiconductor trade agreement).

Mismanaged Trade: Strategic Policy and the Semiconductor Industry. (book reviews): An article from: Issues in Science and Technology

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Mismanaged Trade: Strategic Policy and the Semiconductor Industry. (book reviews): An article from: Issues in Science and Technology
Jeffrey A. Hart
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This digital document is an article from Issues in Science and Technology, published by National Academy of Sciences on December 22, 1996. The length of the article is 1815 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mismanaged Trade: Strategic Policy and the Semiconductor Industry. (book reviews)
Author: Jeffrey A. Hart
Publication: Issues in Science and Technology (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1996
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Volume: v13 Issue: n2 Page: p86(5)

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Exporting and Importing: Negotiating Global Markets
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Good primer for beginners in exporting.

Exporting and Importing: Negotiating Global Markets
Amy Zuckerman , and David Biederman
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EXPORTING AND IMPORTING How to Buy and Sell Profitably Across Borders

With U.S. international trade approaching $2 trillion per year, the global marketplace becomes ever more seductive. Yet behind the glitter is a world fraught with wildly complicated regulations and rapidly escalating competition.

Designed especially for newcomers, Exporting and Importing is a practical, easy-to-read, all-encompassing guide to every aspect of the changing international marketplace. It covers:

** New Regulatory Information -- how to comply with complex regulations, monitor transactions, maintain accurate records, and eliminate the specter of stiff fines. ** Cost-Effective Trading Methods -- which business practices are working best for professionals in the field.

** Step-by-Step Guidance -- how to handle every transaction from start to finish, with no costly mistakes or delays. AMY ZUCKERMAN (Amherst, MA) is principal/co-owner of the consulting A-Z International Associates. She is the author of ISO 9000 Made Easy and The International Standards Desk Reference (both Amacom). DAVID BIEDERMAN (Pelham, MA) co-founded both the Holland Boat Company and INEX Information Export, a consulting and research firm. His articles have appeared in Traffic World, Export Today, Industry Week, and other professional publications.

Customer Reviews:

Good primer for beginners in exporting........1998-10-20

This is a publication that we recommend to those who contact the Export Institute asking for basic information on how to export. They are usually in the initial stages of starting an export business or establishing an export department within a company. It is an excellent resource for those needing to learn the basics of exporting quickly. John R. Jagoe, Director, Export Institute,

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