The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America
C. Donald Johnson
Feb 2019 · Highbridge Audio · Narrated by David Stifel
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Ambassador C. Donald Johnson's The Wealth of a Nation is an authoritative history of the politics of trade in America from the Revolution to the Trump era. Johnson begins by charting the rise and fall of the U.S. protectionist system from the time of Alexander Hamilton to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930. Challenges to protectionist dominance were frequent and often serious, but the protectionist regime only faded in the wake of the Great Depression. After World War II, America was the primary architect of the liberal rules-based economic order that has dominated the globe for over half a century. Recent years, however, have seen a swelling anti-free trade movement that casts the postwar liberal regime as anti-worker, pro-capital, and—in Donald Trump's view—even anti-American. In this riveting history, Johnson emphasizes the benefits of the postwar free trade regime, but focuses in particular on how it has attempted to advance workers' rights. This analysis of the evolution of American trade policy stresses the critical importance of the multilateral trading system's survival and defines the central political struggle between business and labor in measuring the wealth of a nation.
Ambassador C. Donald Johnson's The Wealth of a Nation is an authoritative history of the politics of trade in America from the Revolution to the Trump era. Johnson begins by charting the rise and fall of the U.S. protectionist system from the time of Alexander Hamilton to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff ...
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C. Donald Johnson is Director Emeritus of the Dean Rusk International Law Center at the University of Georgia School of Law. Johnson was an Ambassador in the Office of United States Trade Representative, a member of Congress, representing the 10th district of Georgia, and he served in the Georgia State Senate.
Actor David Stifel entered the audiobook narration field in 2011, when he launched a long-term podcast of serializations of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Today he is a multi-award-winning narrator with more than 125 titles to his credit.
C. Donald Johnson is Director Emeritus of the Dean Rusk International Law Center at the University of Georgia School of Law. Johnson was an Ambassador in the Office of United States Trade Representative, a member of Congress, representing the 10th district of Georgia, and he served in the Georgia...
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