Free Trade Agreements and Offshoring

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For a similar summary of the standard exposition of free-trade theory, see Elliott, Kimberly, “Liberalized Trade Is Under Attack. Can it be Saved?”, World Politics Review, September 6, 2016.

For a survey by this author of the costs of offshoring for rich countries, see: Douglas, William. 2017. “The Ethics of Offshoring”. Challenge Vol. 60, No. 1, January-February, 2017: 83-89.

The International Labor Organization’s “core labor standards” include Convention 111 on Nondiscrimination in Employment.

This is the thesis of a very informative article by John Lee, “Will Robots Kill the Asian Century?”, The National Interest, May-June, 2015.

For example, U.S. Senator Joe Donnelley has introduced in Congress a proposed End Outsourcing Act that would require the Federal government to give preference in contracting to companies that employ American workers. Mike Debonis, “From Some Democrats in Trump States, Little Resistance”, Washington Post, August 31, 2017, p. 4.

For a much more detailed exposition of how the Retain, But Reduce, Global Wage Differences model might work, see this author’s article “Making Free Trade Worker- Friendly”, Challenge, Vol. 58, No. 3, May-June, 2015.

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William A. Douglas

William A. Douglas is working as a Professorial Lecturer at Global Theory and History Program SAIS of Johns Hopkins University Washington, D.C., United States. E-mail: [email protected]