Can Trade Work for Workers? The Right Way to Redress Harms and Redistribute Gains.

GLOBALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL trade; INTERNATIONAL markets; JOB creation; BIDEN, Joe, 1942-; COMMERCIAL treaties

The article examines the broken promises and acute harms of past trade agreements which shaped the globalized economy. Topics discussed include the failure of several trade agreements to produce more exports and create U.S. jobs, the vagueness of the U.S. trade policy of the administration of President Joe Biden and ways to fix them, and the basis for the skepticism about globalization that pervades U.S. politics.