{"product_id":"heavy-traffic-9780774807692","title":"Heavy Traffic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanada and the United States exchange the world''s highest level of bilateral trade, valued at $1.4 billion a day. Two-thirds of this trade travels on trucks. \u003cem\u003eHeavy Traffic\u003c\/em\u003e examines the way in which the regulatory reform of American and Canadian trucking, coupled with free trade, has internationalized this vital industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore deregulation, restrictive entry rules had fostered two separate national highway transportation markets, and most international traffic had to be exchanged at the border. When the United States deregulated first, the imbalance between its opened market and Canada's still-restricted one produced a surprisingly difficult bilateral dispute. American deregulation was motivated by domestic incentives, but the subsequent Canadian deregulation blended domestic incentives with transborder rate comparisons and concerns about trade competitiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Madar shows that deregulation created a de facto regime of free trade in trucking services. R\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Madar provides a strong, well-crafted and insightful account of the process by which the highly regulated trucking industry was deregulated after 1980 in the U.S. and Canada, and how, in conjunction with free trade and industrial changes, the trucking business has been transformed. -- The Donner Prize Jury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcronyms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The State in Action: Regulation’s Origins and Effects\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 The State Withdraws: Critique and Reform in the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Deregulation, Discrimination, and Diplomacy: The Trucking War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The State Withdraws: Reform, Trade, and Federalism in Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 After Deregulation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes; Bibliography; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404904866135,"sku":"9780774807692","price":73.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774807692.jpg?v=1730488009","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/heavy-traffic-9780774807692","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}