خرید و دانلود نسخه کامل کتاب The Evolution of the Non-market Economy Treatment in the Multilateral Trading System – Original PDF

The non-market economy (NME) treatment has long been a fundamental issue in the history of the multilateral trading system (MTS), or the GATT/WTO regime. The MTS is an international institution launched by the capitalist superpower after the WWII. Advocating economic liberalism and private ownership of property rights, it has been in conflict with the socialist economic system governed by government planning and public ownership. Meanwhile, as an instrument to con- solidate capitalist powers’ political-economic interests and international position, it has been inevitably antagonist with the socialist bloc politically. Thus, when countries of the two economic systems tried to establish connections through the MTS, those with the planned socialist economic system were deemed to be the opposite of the market-based capitalism, and therefore labeled as “non-market economies”. Consequently, the relationship between the NMEs and the MTS has been a political-economic issue of international significance from the very beginning. With the development of market and non-market economies themselves and of the relationship between them, particularly with the transition of NMEs from planned to market system, the contents of the issue have been evolving and growing. Up to the present, they can be summarized by the following basic questions: From the NMEs’ perspective, what is their attitude towards the MTS? How has their attitude evolved with the change of their domestic institutions? How did their domestic institutional change interact with their accession to the MTS?