Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New

by Robert A. Pastor

Book Overview

The Mexican peso crisis struck in late December 1994, coinciding with a new Mexican administration and the end of the first year of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The crisis poignantly highlighted the success and the inadequacy of the treaty--success in the expansion of trade and capital flows, and inadequacy in institutional capacity. The Canadian, Mexican, and US governments defined the agreement so narrowly that they failed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881323284
• ISBN13: 9780881323283
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

America is 1 = From Canada to Chile

Most of the comments are coming from people that probably never been out of the US, please go to Europe and you will see whats the European Union, read a little bit about it and you will understand that none of the countries are losing their constitutions or their freedoms. Some of the comment are talking about destroying the US?? thats incredible such an ignorance, American jobs will grow and Mexicans will remain in their country, as already is happening in European Union, a Mexican family not to come to the US needs 300 dollars a month, but they can not even make that, lets develop Mexico and they will not come, they will be richer and they will buy more from US and Canada, guys don't be scare, Loud Dobbs is absolutely wrong and his program just make profits with your fear, wake up people. The North American Union Will make the US leader as stronger and it has never been in its history. Canada and the US can transform The whole Americas in 20 years as the European Union is doing it in Southern and Eastern Europe. Mexico is in a better shape that Spain, Ireland Greece Poland were when they joined the European Union, and look at now, Ireland has highest standard of living than the US, Spain is a first world country now, and just 1.5 million Polish left Poland since it joined the EU, mean while 0.5 million Mexicans have to cross illegally the border cause the US and Canada have a half as NAFTA, a Free trade that is nothing comparing with the European Union. PLEASE PEOPLE READ ABOUT EUROPEAN UNION [...] , and you will see that the US media is just about fear fear fear, and the worse is that you buy the baby food that they give you.