Mad about trade : why Main Street America should embrace globalization / Daniel Griswold.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781935308195 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 193530819X (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xv, 203 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, c2009.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-194) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : Main Street meets the global economy -- America's consuming interest in trade -- How American workers and families have traded up -- U.S. manufacturing in a global economy : more stuff, better stuff, fewer workers -- America's trade deficit : accounting abstraction or public enemy no.1? -- Foreign investment : paying dividends for American families -- America in the global economy : strong, free, and open for business -- More like us : the growth of the global middle class -- The protectionist swindle : how trade barriers cheat the poor and the middle class -- A trade agenda for a free people. |
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Subject: | Free trade > United States. Balance of trade > United States. Consumers > United States. Globalization. |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HF 1756 .G757 2009 | 30542340 | General Collection | Available | - |
Mad about Trade : Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization
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Mad about Trade : Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization
Mad about Trade is the much-needed antidote to a rising tide of protectionist sentiment in the United States. The book explains the benefits of free trade and globalization for middle-class, Main Street Americans exposed to a barrage of negative claims from politicians and commentators such as Lou Dobbs. It offers a spirited defense of free trade and globalization that engages the populists on their own turf. In eight timely and provocative chapters, the book shows how middle- and low-income families benefit from import competition, and how a more globalized U.S. economy has created better jobs and higher living standards for American workers through the ups and downs of the business cycle.