free trade

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.

Offers a comprehensive overview of the role free trade plays in the global economy, as well as the controversies surrounding its history and implementation around the world.

Presents a comprehensive reference manual that describes free trade and the history of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and discusses the loss of American jobs to Mexico, and the economical and political fallout as a result of the agreement.

Contains twenty-four 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.

The travels of a t-shirt in the global economy :--an economist examines the markets, power and politics of world trade.

Explains how globalization is shaping world affairs and discusses how it replaced the Cold War system, how it is creating a single global market, how it is influencing domestic policies, and other related topics.

Challenges liberal economists who argue that only capitalism and international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty.

An economist used the tee-shirt industry as an example to examine the politics, economics, ethics, and history of modern business and globalization.

Explores how globalization is transforming every aspect of life and presents arguments both for and against the process, exploring the passion behind the issues.