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Chapter 9, Problem 2QAP
To determine
If adoption of foreign practice and belief is inevitable with increased globalization, find whether trade should be encouraged even today.
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Which of the below statements does NOT reflect the ideas expressed by the author Charles Wheelan in the chapter titled, "Trade and Globalization," in the book, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science?
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A majority of U.S. jobs lost since 2000 have been to technology and not to China, Vietnam or Mexico.
Nearly all theory and evidence suggest that the benefits of international trade far exceed the costs.
Tariffs and other barriers to imports will bring manufacturing jobs back into the U.S., exactly as President Trump promised.
Trade creates losers, like any kind of market.
Question G and H.
In a small open economy, the government decides to remove
all trade barriers, transitioning from a protectionist stance to a completely
free trade policy. Consider the Heckscher - Ohlin model in this context. A)
How is this policy shift likely to affect the country's production and
consumption patterns in the short term? B) What would be the expected
impact on the distribution of income between the owners of the country's
abundant and scarce factors of production? C) Discuss the potential long
- term dynamic effects on the economy's growth and development. D) If
the economy has a comparative advantage in labor - intensive goods,
what kind of structural changes might you anticipate in the domestic
industries as a result of this policy shift?
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