Why Globalization Works for America: How Nationalist Trade Policies Are Destroying Our Country

Why Globalization Works for America: How Nationalist Trade Policies Are Destroying Our Country

by Edward Goldberg
Why Globalization Works for America: How Nationalist Trade Policies Are Destroying Our Country

Why Globalization Works for America: How Nationalist Trade Policies Are Destroying Our Country

by Edward Goldberg

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Overview

Blue-collar job loss, immigration, trade deficits—Americans blame globalization for a host of problems. Indeed, even in a political system split by fundamental divisions, populists and progressives alike belong to a chorus that decries globalization’s effects on our politics, way of life, and interactions with the world. Yet the United States is the biggest beneficiary of the global economy it has helped to create.

Edward Goldberg argues that globalization is the economic and cultural version of evolution, a natural process that pushes people into more efficient behavior influenced by the market and our human need to explore, change, and grow. Properly implemented, it propels cultures and societies forward as one new idea challenges or blends into another. Harmful nationalist policies have arisen because Americans do not equally share globalization’s benefits, a situation made worse by the government’s refusal to implement policies that would mitigate the rampant inequalities.

A bold challenge to popular opinion, Why Globalization Works for America offers a historically informed analysis of why we should celebrate globalization’s place in our lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781640123434
Publisher: Potomac Books
Publication date: 07/01/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 922,027
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Edward Goldberg is an adjunct professor at the New York University Center for Global Affairs specializing in international political economy and is a scholarly practitioner at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York. Goldberg has commented about the issues of globalization on Bloomberg radio and TV, PBS, and NPR’s Marketplace. He also writes a regular column on international economics and politics for Salon and is a frequent commentator to the Hill. He is the author of The Joint Ventured Nation: Why America Needs a New Foreign Policy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction    
1. Big Victory but No Parade    
2. “Make It Like It Was”    
3. A Disturbance in the Force    
4. How Downton Abbey Resonates in America Today    
5. Becoming Less Great    
6. We Have Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself    
7. Tomorrow
Index
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