Год выпуска: 0 Автор: Albert Fishlow, Karen Parker Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 0876092555
Описание
Although the dollar value of international trade in goods and services is dwarfed by that of cross-border capital flows, trade over time has had a significantly greater effect on the lives of ordinary individuals in the United States and around the world. Those who seek to protect U.S. domestic markets, such as Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot, cite trade's role in creating "winners" and "losers" in the U.S. economy. As the number of "losers"--including manufacturing laborers displaced by cheap foreign laboras well as firms in industries (such as steel) threatened by cheap imports--grows, so does the chorus for protection of domestic industries. Without such protection, so the logic goes, the wages of workers in these industries either have to fall to compete with foreign workers or be eliminated altogether through layoffs. This important book joins the debate with a robust defense of the principle--and practice--of free trade in the United States. Editors Albert Fishlow and Karen...
