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Myths of Free Trade

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Description for Myths of Free Trade paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 211 x 21. Weight in Grams: 300.

The subject of widespread attention when first released, including the pages of the New York Times Book Review, Myths of Free Trade provides a front-row seat to the Washington spectacle of corporate lobbying and political intimidation that keeps the free-trade mantra alive as American policy, despite all the evidence of its failure.

U.S. Representative Sherrod Brown—a leading progressive voice in Congress and a twelve-year veteran of Washington’s trade wars—takes apart free-trade dogma, myth by myth. His book is an accessible, personal, globe-trotting chronicle, taking the reader from the coffee fields of Nicaragua to the sweatshops of China; from the toxic wastelands ... Read more

Described as an “essential primer” by The Progressive and a “voice of truth” by Public Citizen News, this edition includes a fascinating update that describes the congressional battle over the Central American Free Trade Agreement—a battle led by Tom DeLay on one side and Sherrod Brown on the other.


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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The New Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781595581242
SKU
V9781595581242
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Sherrod Brown
United States Senator Sherrod Brown serves on the Senate Committee on Finance, the Senate Committee on Banking, the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, and the Veterans Affairs Committee. Previously, he represented Ohio’s 13th Congressional District and served on the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection. Brown has also taught in Ohio public schools and at the Ohio State ... Read more

Reviews for Myths of Free Trade
"Sherrod Brown demolishes the seven myths of NAFTA, and the `wonders’ of free-trade. . . . In Brown we have an eloquent public servant—rather than a go-along private one." —Studs Terkel "Sherrod Brown reveals the power, corruption, and lies behind U.S. trade policy." —Eric Schlosser

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