Product details
- Categories: External Trade
- Publisher: OUP - Oxford University Press
- Collection: What Everyone Needs to Know®
- ISBN: 9780190900458
- Publication Date: 10/12/2020
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 288
- Language: English
Summary
- A succinct and clear introduction to international trade policy
- Balanced analysis of the benefits and costs of international trade for the United States and the world economy
- Discusses how international trade policies affects workers, consumers, and the overall economy
With evidence-based analysis and an even-handed approach, International Trade: What Everyone Needs to Know lays the foundation to understand what trade does and does not do. Focusing on the importance of trade in both goods and services, Krueger explores the effects of various trade policies step-by-step and demonstrates why economists generally support free trade. Krueger considers the historical experience, highlighting how technological changes and reduction of trade barriers helped transform the world economy. Tariffs, antidumping and countervailing duties, government procurement policies, preferential trading arrangements, trade with developing countries and emerging markets, and the World Trade Organization are examined. Krueger tackles the fundamental questions surrounding trade including: What are the benefits and costs? What are trade deficits and do they matter? Why do some people favor protectionism and barriers to trade? How does trade policy affect workers?
Written in question-and-answer format, this non-technical introduction to the policies of international trade provides an indispensable guide to one of the most crucial elements of the global economy.
Table of contents
Introduction
Part 1. The Groundwork
Chapter 1. Trade in World History
Chapter 2. What is Trade Policy About and Why?
Chapter 3. Facts about Trade
Part 2. Trade Policy Issues
Chapter 4. Why Do Economists Advocate Free Trade?
Chapter 5. Nontariff Barriers
Chapter 6. Do Trade Deficits Matter: What Should Be Done about Them?
Chapter 7. Does Trade Hurt American Jobs?
Chapter 8. Currency Manipulation
Part 3. What Trade Policy Does
Chapter 9. Case Studies of Protection: Steel, Aluminum, Autos, Textiles, and Apparel
Chapter 10. Agriculture: Should We Support and Protect Agriculture?
Chapter 11. The WTO
Chapter 12. Trade Remedy Protection Ads and CVDs
Chapter 13. Grey Areas: Defense, Standards, Procurement, Self-sufficiency, Transport (Jones Act)
Part 4. Trade Relations and Roles of Countries and Regions
Chapter 14. Preferential Trading Arrangements
Chapter 15. EU and Brexit
Chapter 16. What about NAFTA/MUSCA?
Chapter 17. What Happened to the TPP?
Chapter 19. What about Trade with China?
Chapter 20 Developing Countries and Emerging Markets
Part 5. Why We Need an International Order
Chapter 21. Helping those Adversely Affected by Trade and Other Events
Chapter 22. Political Economy of Trade Policy
Chapter 23. Conclusion: Why We Need an International Order