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10 - E-Commerce

from Part IV - Major Substantive Topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2023

Alan Wm. Wolff
Affiliation:
Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
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The world of digital commerce is relatively new. It is a by-product of an information technology revolution that started with the invention of the integrated circuit, carried forward with advances in computing and unleashed with the creation of the internet. Digital commerce is familiar in some respects and dramatically different in others from the world of trade that preceded it. It poses special problems of privacy, unwanted communication, and new kinds of competition, stemming from the flow of data across borders. It gave rise to the need to devise rules for its nurture and management. It makes the most sense for the rules to be global, as without interference from governments, e-commerce is global. It creates opportunities as never experienced before for innovation and for individual and small business involvement in international commerce. This is the story of the evolution of the process of rule-making in the age of digital commerce.

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Print publication year: 2023

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  • E-Commerce
  • Alan Wm. Wolff, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
  • Book: Revitalizing the World Trading System
  • Online publication: 22 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009289290.016
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  • Alan Wm. Wolff, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
  • Book: Revitalizing the World Trading System
  • Online publication: 22 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009289290.016
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  • E-Commerce
  • Alan Wm. Wolff, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
  • Book: Revitalizing the World Trading System
  • Online publication: 22 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009289290.016
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