@article{1385879,
      recid = {1385879},
      author = {Bhagwati, Jagdish N.,},
      title = {The wind of the hundred days : wow Washington mismanaged  globalization /},
      pages = {1 online resource (397 pages).},
      abstract = {Provocative essays on international trade, with particular  focus on U.S. foreign trade policy. In The Wind of the  Hundred Days , a new collection of public policy essays,  Jagdish Bhagwati applies his characteristic wit and  accessible style to the subject of globalization. Notably,  he argues that the true Clinton scandal lay in the  administration's mismanagement of globalization --  resulting in the paradox of immense domestic policy success  combined with dramatic failure on the external front.  Bhagwati assigns the bulk of the blame for the East Asian  financial and economic crisis -- a disaster that prompts  him to use as his title the poet Octavio Paz's image of  devastation "I met the wind of the hundred days" -- to the  administration's hasty push for financial liberalization in  the region. The administration, Bhagwati claims, has also  mishandled the freeing of trade. The administration-hosted  WTO meeting in Seattle ended in chaos and the launch of a  new round of multilateral trade negotiations was dashed.  Bhagwati shows how the administration's failure to get  Congress to renew fast-track authority can be attributed to  an unimaginative response to the demands of a growing civil  society. In several essays, he shows how free trade and  social agendas both could have been pursued successfully if  the concerns of human-rights, environmental, cultural, and  labor activists had been met through creative programs at  appropriate international agencies such as the  International Labour Organization instead of the WTO and  via trade treaties. Bhagwati also criticizes the claim that  "globalization needs a human face," arguing that it already  has one. He faults the administration for embracing  unsubstantiated anti-globalization rhetoric that has made  its own preferred option of pursuing globalization that  much more difficult.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1385879},
}