Mad About Trade: Why Main Street Ameria Should Embrace Globalization
The DC Forum For Freedom presents Daniel Griswold at the Cato Institute on Friday, November 20th, 3:30-4:30pm!
Because this is the last Cato DC Forum event of the semester, instead of having a reception at Cato, we will finish the talk with a big social at Capitol City Brewery in Metro Center (1100 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20005). Bring your friends, buy dinner and drinks, network, and celebrate liberty and the DC Forum!
Dan Griswold is the director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. and a nationally recognized authority on international trade and immigration.
The topic this month - International Trade!
If you look at where nearly all of the clothes in your closet were manufactured, as Dan Griswold does at the opening of Mad about Trade, the picture is clear. China, Canada, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Peru, Korea, Egypt, India, Mexico, Thailand, and more—a United Nations of pants, shirts, ties, and jackets. In every sense of the word, trade suits us exceedingly well.
Politicians and pundits can rage against free trade and globalization, but much of what they convey is myth. Griswold embraces the global marketplace and shows how free trade is the American family’s best friend. Here are a few of the benefits Griswold takes us through:
• Import competition provides lower prices, greater variety, and better quality, especially for poor and middle- class families.
• Driven in part by trade, most new jobs are well-paying service jobs that form the backbone of today’s middle class.
• Trade barriers erected in the United States are manipulative and harmful, and their “value” is often deliberately misrepresented by those with economic or political axes to grind.
• Foreign investment here has created well-paying jobs, and investment abroad has given United States companies access to millions of new customers.
• Trade has helped expand the global middle class, reducing poverty and child labor while fueling demand for U.S. products.
And most importantly, over the past three decades trade and an open global economy have created a more prosperous, democratic, and peaceful world.
Gather with liberty-minded students from all over DC and hear Dr. Griswold give a fantastic talk on his highly acclaimed new book; hear the arguments for free trade, and pass them on!
Invite all your friends!
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