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Griswold Daniel T. <1958-> |
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Titolo |
Mad about trade [[electronic resource] ] : why Main Street America should embrace globalization / / Daniel Griswold |
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Washington, D.C., : Cato Institute, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-59999-2 |
9786612599996 |
1-935308-20-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Free trade - United States |
Balance of trade - United States |
Consumers - United States |
Globalization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Main Street Meets the Global Economy; 2. America's Consuming Interest in Trade; 3. How American Workers and Families Have Traded Up; 4. U.S. Manufacturing in a Global Exonomy: More Stuff, Better Stuff, Fewer Workers; 5. America's Trade Deficit: Accounting Abstraction or Public Enemy No. 1?; 6. Foreign Investment: Paying Dividends for American Families; 7. America in the Global Economy: Strong, Free, and Open for Business; 8. More Like Us: The Growth of the Global Middle Class |
9. The Protectionist Swindle: How Trade Barriers Cheat the Poor and the Middle Class10. A Trade Agenda for a Free People; Notes; Index; About the Author; Cato Institute |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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