Donald Trump won the presidency on the platform to “Make America Great Again” and campaigned to reverse long-standing international trade policies. China in particular was vilified as unfairly manipulating its currency to achieve a trade surplus.. Trump’s anti-trade message reverberated with working class voters, who argued that the manufacturing sector has suffered egregiously under trade agreements. One view is that it is new technology – not trade agreements – that has rendered many manufacturing jobs outmoded and that trade agreements al-most always benefit trading nations. Dr. Grob will argue that a larger perspective is needed: to make trade work for the Unit-ed States, we must attend to global issues of economic develop-ment, inequality and tax policies.
Heather Grob, PhD
Associate Professor of Economics
St Martin's University
Associate Professor of Economics
St Martin's University