Unit 2: Why Trade?

Readings

Course website e-readings

These may be accessed at:
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“Profits over People,” The Economist Magazine, September 27, 2001.

“Does International Trade Kill Good American Jobs?”, The American Enterpise, June 2004.

Purchased texts:

Chapters 1-5, The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism by Russell Roberts, Prentice Hall, 2001.

Chapter 2, Free Trade Under Fire by Douglas Irwin, Princeton University Press, 2003.

From Real World Globalization, 8th Ed., edited by the Dollars and Sense Collective, 2004:

• Chapter 1, Article 5, “Free Markets, International Commerce, and Economic Development.”
• Chapter 3, Article 11, “The Gospel of Free Trade: The New Evangelists.”