Freedom From Want American Liberalism and the Global Economy

by Gresser, Edward

• ISBN13: 9781933368627
• ISBN10: 1933368624
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-28
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

American liberals have an honorable record as optimistic, far-sighted designers of the modern global economy. The liberal internationalism of the 1940s has lasting power because it organizes complex trade, military, and financial policies around simple values and coherent theories of economics and foreign affairs. Liberals should take pride in this achievement, draw inspiration from it, and build upon it as they think about how to make the modern world a better place when they return to power.

Author Biography

Edward Gresser has served as Director of the Progressive Policy Institute's (PPI) Project on Trade and Global Markets since February 2001. In this capacity, he writes and speaks on the value of open markets, internationalism and social responsibility in the global economy. Mr. Gresser's major focuses have included investigation of the American tariff system, Trade Promotion Authority and the future U.S. trade negotiating agenda, hemispheric integration, economic relations with China in the wake of WTO membership and Asian affairs, as well as international finance and labor issues.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Modern Global Economy and Its Design

Some Numbers, A Worker, The Rules

An Indictment

The Background

Hope, Gloom and Virtue

The American Background

Victorian Globalization and Its Collapse

Liberal Internationalism and the Trading System

Re-Enter China

Happy Ending?

Backlash

Loss of Faith

Trade & Labor: The New Whig Argument

Trade & Environment: Interlude with Turtles and Fish

Poverty: Why Trade Policies are Toughest on the Poor

War and Peace: Middle East as the Blank Spot on the Trade Map

Program

At Home

A Trade Agenda

A Concluding Thought

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