Trade in Services: A Case for Open Markets (AEI studies)

A compelling and prescient case study for anyone tracking the rise of the modern services economy, where Jonathan David Aronson and Peter F. Cowhey tackle the once-overlooked frontier of services trade, from telecommunications to finance, building the foundational argument for open markets, market access, and national treatment that would eventually shape GATT and the WTO, making this essential reading for understanding globalization, trade liberalization, and the policy battles behind today's international trade system. 

Although the service sector has been largely ignored in the world trade system, trade in services has in the past two decades become an important source of jobs and economic growth.

Peter F. Cowhey, a former senior FCC official, is Dean of the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Communications and Technology Policy at the University of California, San Diego.