Open : the Progressive case for free trade, immigration, and global capital / Kimberly Clausing.
By: Clausing, Kimberly A [author.].
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, ©2019Description: 343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674919334.Subject(s): Free trade -- United States | Globalization -- Economic aspects -- United States | Employees -- United States | United States -- CommerceGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HF1713 .C59 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000015057 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-334) and index.
Part I. Introduction: Making the global economy work for everyone -- Middle-class stagnation and income inequality -- Part II. International trade: The case for international trade -- Winners and losers from international trade -- Trade politics and trade policy -- Part III. International capital and international labor: Who's afraid of the trade deficit? -- Multinational corporations -- Immigrants, we get the job done! -- Part IV. Securing the future of the middle class: Equipping workers for a modern global economy -- A grand bargain on tax reform -- A better partnership with the business community -- A more equitable globalization.
With the winds of trade war blowing as they have not done in decades, and left and right agreeing only on protectionism, a leading economist forcefully shows how a free and open economy is still the best way to advance the interests of working Americans.--