balance of trade

Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce young readers to the economic issue of scarcity of resources, and describes how goods are exchanged, resources, productivity, causes of scarcity, and other related topics.

Presents opposing viewpoints on the issues of free trade, trade practices, and the future trading system. Includes critical thinking activities.

An introduction to trade deficit that discusses its causes, history, global effects, and other related topics.

Argues that the economic woes of the world are forcing a critical rebalancing of the world economies.

Over the past thirty years trade and an open global economy have created a more prosperous, democratic, and peaceful world. Free trade has given us competition which helps lower prices, provides a better selection of products, expands a global middle class, reduces poverty and child labor, and fuels a demand for U.S. products in the global marketplace.