Because macroeconomics is grounded in microeconomics and uses mathematical models to simplify and illustrate complex processes, learning it can be difficult. Traditional macroeconomic-principles textbooks fail to connect topics and models in a concise, cohesive, and meaningful w…
Critics about International Trade shows that trade forces painful economic adjustment, suchs as plant closings and lay-off of workers, and charge that the World Trade Organization serves the interest of corporations, undercuts domestic enviromental regulations and erodes America…
"Growing international trade has helped lift living standards around the world, and yet free trade is always under attack. Critics complain that trade forces painful economic adjustments, such as plant closings and layoffs of workers, and charge that the World Trade Organization…
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Growing international trade has helped lift living standards around the world, and yet free trade is always under attack. Critics complain that trade forces painful economic adjustments, such as plant closings and layoffs of workers, and charge that the World Trade Organization …
"Growing international trade has helped lift living standards around the world, and yet free trade is always under attack. Critics complain that trade forces painful economic adjustments, such as plant closings and layoffs of workers, and charge that the World Trade Organization…
How did democratic developing countries open their economies during the late-twentieth century? Since labor unions opposed free trade, democratic governments often used labor repression to ease the process of trade liberalization. Some democracies brazenly jailed union leaders a…
"How did democratic developing countries open their economies during the late twentieth century? Since labor unions opposed free trade, democratic governments often used labor repression to ease the process of trade liberalization. Some democracies brazenly jailed union leaders …
"How did democratic developing countries open their economies during the late twentieth century? Since labor unions opposed free trade, democratic governments often used labor repression to ease the process of trade liberalization. Some democracies brazenly jailed union leaders …
Essays on the major social, economic, and environmental issues threatening our society. The answers to these questions, and the solutions proposed, will determine the shape of our society in the twenty-first century. Based on conversations with Yves Messarovitch, economics edito…
Objection: Americans cannot compete against low-cost foreign producers -- Essay 1: comparative advantage and supply chains -- Objection: free trade harms the United States -- Essay 2: imports are not a deduction from GDP -- Objection: the trade deficit is bad -- Essay 3: the bal…
Lemieux shows how free trade improves the lives of American consumers, especially the poor. The narrow agenda of the protectionists-to protect a small minority of producers at the expense of millions of their fellow Americans-is the wrong path for an increasingly diverse and com…
"Putting tariffs on imported goods or setting other barriers to international trade can be tempting for politicians. They assume that many of their constituents believe that free trade is not fair trade and that other countries aren't playing by the rules. This belief makes it e…
