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Issues in Economics Today
Issues in Economics Today
Robert Guell, Indiana State University

International Trade

Web-Based Issues Questions

Question 14.1

Click on these data links

http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/

http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/top/index.html#top_partners

Snoop around these data sites and see if there are any aspects of trade (what is traded, with whom we trade, the magnitude of trade) surprises you. Comment on your preconceived notions and what the data actually suggest.

Question 14.2

Click on these articles

http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/briefs/tpb-006es.html

http://www.epinet.org/briefingpapers/sept01inequality.html

Compare the views presented in these articles. Note that the first article comes from a conservative think-tank and the second from a liberal think-tank. Comment on which article conforms to your preconceived view of the effects of trade. What arguments from the other article challenge that view?





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