Ep. 480 Is Free Trade Helpful or Harmful for America?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2015
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Opponents of free trade insist that job opportunities and living standards have declined as international trade has expanded. Is that true? Professor Don Boudreaux joins us for a rebuttal.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 480. |
| 0:03.3 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:28.1 | slash code. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Trade is very much in the news with Bernie Sanders and |
| 0:34.4 | Donald Trump railing against free trade. So I wanted to talk about this subject. |
| 0:39.8 | Has free trade been good or bad for Americans? |
| 0:43.2 | Well, as libertarians, of course, we have views on free trade. |
| 0:47.3 | Well, of course, we favor free trade, but free trade is getting a very bad rap these days. |
| 0:52.8 | So I want to look at some facts and figures, |
| 0:55.1 | look at some arguments, and see what the truth of the matter really is. |
| 0:58.8 | And joining me to do that today is Professor Don Boudreau, who is a professor of economics at |
| 1:04.2 | George Mason University, where he is also a senior fellow at the Mercatus Center. |
| 1:09.6 | He is the author of the book Globalization, |
| 1:12.8 | and also the 2012 book Hippocrits and Halfwits, a daily dose of sanity from Cafe Hayek. |
| 1:20.2 | And as a matter of fact, that is Professor Budrow's blog, with Russ Roberts, |
| 1:24.5 | cafehyack.com is the address for that. |
| 1:28.8 | We will link to Cafe Hayek and to Professor Budrow's George Mason University faculty page |
| 1:34.2 | on today's show notes page tomwoods.com slash 480. |
| 1:38.9 | Stay tuned after my conversation with Professor Budrow for a couple of wrap-up items, |
| 1:43.3 | including a reminder |
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