Limits to Liberalization
Subtitle: Local Culture in a Global Marketplace (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: February 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780801444586
Subjects: Cultural studies; Globalization; International economics; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Economic Conditions; International Relations - Trade & Tariffs; Canada; Cultural industries; Cultural property; European Union countries; Protection
Description: "The so-called culture industries - film, television and radio broadcasting, periodical and book publishing, video and sound recording - are noteworthy exceptions to the rhetorical commitment of Western countries to free trade as a major goal. These exceptions threatened to derail such high-profile negotiations as NAFTA and its predecessor, the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, as well as the Uruguay Round of the GATT." "Conventional wisdom did not foresee trouble from this source, because these established industries are not commercial national champions, nor are they particularly large providers of jobs. As Patricia M. Goff shows, the standard trade literature considers the monetary value but doesn't recognize the symbolic importance of cultural production. In Limits to Liberalization, she traces the interplay between the commercial and the cultural."--BOOK JACKET.