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

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Blue-collar job loss, immigration, trade deficits - Americans blame globalisation 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 globalisation'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 globalisation 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 globalisation'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 globalisation's place in our lives.

AUTHOR:
Edward Goldberg is an adjunct professor at the New York University Center for Global Affairs specialising 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 globalisation 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.

ISBN: 9781640123014
Author: GOLDBERG, EDWARD
Format: Hardcover
Publication date: 01/09/2020
RRP: $85.00
Pages: 208
Dimension: 228mm X 152mm
Imprint: Potomac Books Inc.