THE STANDARD READER
The Standard Reader Books in Brief A World Without Walls: Freedom, Development, Free Trade, and Global Governance by Mike Moore (Cambridge University Press, 292 pp., $28). As a self-described...
...Jack Fischel...
...He offers insights into the way an international bureaucracy works, but readers will probably doze off during his extended description of reforms to the WTO's internship program...
...The Nazis were forced to distinguish between full Jews and those who were of mixed "blood...
...Immediately upon gaining power, the Nazis began their persecution with a boycott of Jewish businesses, followed by a law barring Jews from the professions...
...Nevertheless, by 1944 Mischlinge, were rounded up for forced labor, and Tent concludes that their lives were saved only by the Allied victory in 1945...
...Tent, who teaches history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, interviewed more than twenty "half-Jews" who were teens when Hitler became chancellor of Germany...
...As a self-described "dyed-in-the wool lifelong New Zealand Labour activist" with a free-market bent, Mike Moore seemed a good choice to lead the World Trade Organization at a time when extremists on the Left and Right were fighting against open markets...
...But the book is still worth reading...
...In any case, it won't influence many of the author's critics...
...In 1933, the German Jewish community numbered around 600,000...
...The Mischlinge, for the most part, survived the war, although Tent makes a convincing argument that, had the war continued beyond 1945, they would have suffered the same fate as the Jews...
...But his first major event as the WTO's director general—the 2000 Seattle ministerial meeting—showed that controversy and violence would haunt his tenure...
...a description of Moore's tenure as WTO head...
...Often neglected in the history of the Holocaust is Nazi Germany's persecution of its part-Jewish citizens...
...Here, too, Moore's thinking could stand for some refinements and additional explanation but, nonetheless, it seems like a good start on the path toward a world where goods, services, and people move freely...
...The book's attacks on wealthy nations' agricultural poli-cies—which impoverish poorer nations while doing little to help farmers at home—are compelling...
...Eli Lehrer In the Shadow of The Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of Jewish-Christian Germans by James F. Tent (University of Kansas Press, 288 pp., $29.95...
...The process of defining Jews, however, was not a simple matter because of the high rate of intermarriage among Jews and Christians during the decade of the Weimar Republic...
...Moore admits that A World Without Walls, his combination memoir and economics primer, is "self-serving...
...and a manifesto for improved global governance and increased free trade...
...Following the commencement of the "Final Solution" in 1941, radical Nazis urged the extermination of the Mischlinge, but the moderates urged caution lest public morale suffer: The Mischlinge, had many Aryan relatives who would be embittered by their demise...
...Moore's agenda for the future is based on the ongoing Doha trade round, and it offers a number of intriguing ideas about encouraging free trade while building democracy and civil society around the globe...
...Like Moore's tenure at the WTO, the book mixes good and bad...
...His defense of free trade offers some compelling arguments, but it feels a bit rushed as it swings from trade reforms in New Zealand to a discussion of the world's improved natural environment in just a few pages...
...Moore's description of his time at the WTO's helm, however, could have used some editing...
...The result were the provisions in the Nuremberg Laws that created the category of the "Mischlinge," who were persons with one or two Jewish grandparents...
...The result was approximately 72,000 Mischlinge of the first degree (two Jewish grandparents) and 40,000 of the second degree (one Jewish grandparent...
...A World Without Walls consists of three sections: an economic and philosophical defense of free trade...
Vol. 8 • March 2003 • No. 25
