Explores international economic integration, globalization, and free trade in the United States and abroad; and provides related primary source documents and research tools.
Explores the political origins of the global economy in the early twenty-first century through an investigation of the history of trade liberalization in the U.S. since the 1930s.
Examines how globalization and free trade affect people from various parts of the world, contending that it has hurt the working class and providing examples to support the argument.
Contains twenty-one articles that debate issues relating to free trade, and cover policy ethics; the effects of free trade on American industry, poverty, labor, and the environment; trade policies; and other related topics.
Explores the concept of trade in developed and undeveloped countries, discussing the World Trade Organization, free trade versus protectionism, and the environmental impacts of free trade.
Explains how globalization is shaping world affairs, how it replaced the Cold War system, how it is creating a single global market, its influence on domestic policies, and other related topics.
The opening of economic borders in the early 1980's and the promotion of European free trade after 1990 helped the reconstruction of Eastern Europe and globally lifted 800 million people out of poverty. Behind this unprecedented growth is not only the collapse of state socialism but also a scientific revolution in economics. The recent economic crisis calls for a new commitment to the free-market society, not abandonment, according to the author.
