Introduction : The battle in Seattle and Adam Smith
Part one : From Hamilton to Smoot-Hawley : the rise and fall of the US protectionist system. "A genuine American system"
Crisis, compromise, and free trade in the Jacksonian democracy
Civil War and robber barons
The gilded age of protectionism
Trade reform in the progressive era
The roaring twenties and the path to Smoot-Hawley
Part two : Transformation : the creation of the liberal economic order. FDR and Cordell Hull
The dawn of the multilateral trading system
The Anglo-American special relationship
The postwar Atlantic Alliance
Part three : The survival of the system. A new economic order?
Advancing worker rights beyond the WTO
Conclusion : Donald Trump, the forgotten man, and the liberal economic order