About Our Topic – Tariffs Impact on the Global Economy:
The US has been one of the largest participants and advocates of global free trade. This has led Americans to have among the highest standard of living in the world. Some would argue, however, that free trade has also led to American job loss and a weakening of America’s competitiveness. The President has established a tariff policy to restore perceived imbalances in trade.
How much do we really understand about tariffs? The President sees them as an economic tool to rebalance trade in favor of America, while foreign nations see them as punishment for success. Have our trading partners really been taking advantage of us? What exactly are trade deficits and are they actually bad in either the short or long term? How are these policies playing out in our own economy as well as with our trading partners?
As with most policies, someone benefits and someone is disadvantaged.
The discussion will examine how tariff policies reshape trade, investment, and supply chains, with particular attention to their impact on emerging economies. These and other questions will be addressed by professor Frieden in this timely and important program.
About Our Speaker – Jeffrey A. Frieden:
ICWA’s speaker Jeffry A. Frieden is exceptionally qualified to address “Tariffs Impact on the Global Economy.” He is Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University, a research university in New York City; and is a professor emeritus of Government at Harvard University specializing in the politics of international economic relations.
His influential book, Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century, published by W. W. Norton and Company has been cited as “one of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written” by Michael Hirsh of the New York Times. His other books include Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy; and Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America; and Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance. He is the co-author (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America‘s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery.
His articles on the politics of international economic issues appear in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications, and he is co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics.
He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences known for its multidisciplinary public policy research and its quarterly open access journal, Dædalus, is published by the MIT Press on behalf of the academy.
Dr. Frieden received his B.A. and Ph.D., from Columbia University.
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Moderator: Ray V. Montagno, Past President, Indiana Council on World Affairs
