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Book SynopsisFirms are central to trade policy-making. Some analysts even suggest that they dictate policy on the basis of their material interests. Cornelia Woll counters these assumptions, arguing that firms do not always know what they want. To be sure, firms...
Trade ReviewThis is a truly excellent book that should take the field of international political economy in promising directions. Firm Interests deserves a wide audience of political scientists, policymakers, economists, and scholars of management, public policy, and business-government relations.... It will help us to make better sense of how firms' managers decide what is best and, as well, how firms attempt to influence policies in their favor.... Woll has engaged in impressive field research to find out what firms wanted and why, combining prodigious secondary research with primary interviews at many of the firms that participated in some of the most important trade debates of the past 20 years.
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