{"product_id":"9780807861189","title":"Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776","description":"Despite the passage of NAFTA and other recent free trade victories in the United States, former U.S. trade official Alfred Eckes warns that these developments have a dark side. \u003ci\u003eOpening America's Market\u003c\/i\u003e offers a bold critique of U.S. trade policies over the last sixty years, placing them within a historical perspective.      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEckes reconsiders trade policy issues and events from Benjamin Franklin to Bill Clinton, attributing growing political unrest and economic insecurity in the 1990s to shortsighted policy decisions made in the generation after World War II. Eager to win the Cold War and promote the benefits of free trade, American officials generously opened the domestic market to imports but tolerated foreign discrimination against American goods. American consumers and corporations gained in the resulting global economy, but many low-skilled workers have become casualties.      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEckes also challenges criticisms of the 'infamous' protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which allegedly worsened the Great Depression and provoked foreign retaliation. In trade history, he says, this episode was merely a mole hill, not a mountain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123724632304,"sku":"9780807861189","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807861189_p0.jpg?v=1763739070","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807861189","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}