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April 25, 2006

Bleg

Let's say -- just for the sake of argument -- that I feel relatively uninformed on the consequences of NAFTA and want to get a handle on the debate. Where would I start?

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dunno, call Brad Delong on the phone, I bet he'll take your call

Posted by: Asteele | Apr 25, 2006 4:48:55 PM

That's not a bad suggestion. Of course, I'd recommend you call Jeff Faux or Mark Weisbrot, but whatever.

Posted by: Brad Plumer | Apr 25, 2006 4:57:51 PM

Max Sawicky. IJS.

Posted by: Gar Lipow | Apr 25, 2006 5:05:48 PM

Heh -- I know the blogosphere economists as well, I was sort of looking for a book recommendation.

Posted by: Ezra | Apr 25, 2006 5:14:16 PM

Jeff Faux offers his take in The Global Class War. There's other stuff in there, but my understanding is that it is pretty NAFTA-centric.

Posted by: Matt Singer | Apr 25, 2006 5:31:29 PM

David Sirota's a pretty clearly established opponent of so-called "free trade" deals, and his new book "Hostile Takeover", which I haven't read, promises to say much on the topic.

Posted by: Rick | Apr 25, 2006 6:03:20 PM

My point is why not ask the blogsphere economists for recommendations? I mean c'mon you want me to recommend a book on trade or NAFTA? Ya want a book rec ask the people who are qualified to write books themselves.

Posted by: Gar Lipow | Apr 25, 2006 6:06:39 PM

OK - you want an amateur's rec. Robin Hahnel's "Panic Rules".

The title comes from the basic rules of speculation:

1)Don't Panic.

2)Panic First.

A quirky choice - but hey, if you don't want to ask the professionals

Posted by: Gar Lipow | Apr 25, 2006 6:27:21 PM

My first impulse would be a search on scholar.google.com

Posted by: dan | Apr 25, 2006 6:37:04 PM

I'm looking forward to hearing what you find out about this issue, Ezra.

Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf | Apr 25, 2006 6:57:23 PM

Certainly not the place to start, but environmental ramifications/issues are are big component of NAFTA.

Posted by: tony | Apr 25, 2006 8:58:06 PM

On the consequences I would recommend The Children of NAFTA by David Bacon. It deals primarily with the issue between Mexico and the US. If it has a failing, it misses the US/Canada issue.

A more mercantile read would be NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges. by Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Jeffrey J Schott.

Posted by: Dave | Apr 25, 2006 10:46:29 PM

Ezra, to be taken seriously, you must use extraneous Latin. ad argumentum

Posted by: TJ | Apr 26, 2006 1:12:23 AM

"My point is why not ask the blogsphere economists for recommendations? I mean c'mon you want me to recommend a book on trade or NAFTA? Ya want a book rec ask the people who are qualified to write books themselves."

What he said.

I'd start with Brad DeLong (who was in government at the time of it's inception) and the takes on it by orthodox liberal economists (liberal in the modern not classic sense) before moving onto any heterodox takes on the subject.

Posted by: Dustin | Apr 26, 2006 1:50:41 AM

Sassen, The Global City; Gereffi, Spener, Bair, Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Garment Apparel Industry After NAFTA; and Robinson, A Theory of Global Capitalism and Promoting Polyarchy.

Posted by: Milton Marx | Apr 26, 2006 11:51:44 AM

A good mainstream neo-classical over-view will be:
"THe Impact of Nafta on the U.S." Journal of Economic Perspectives 2001, by ME Burfisher, S Robinson, K Thierfelder. Avaialable here:
http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/articles/2001/Burfisher01_01.pdf

The articles that cite that will show you where the literature has gone:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=link:KBOLqm0j4DcJ:scholar.google.com/

Posted by: Isaac | Apr 26, 2006 11:56:57 AM

Read Dani Rodrik, Has Globalization Gone Too Far? Rodrik's an economist, but this (very short -- less than 100 pages) book is surprisingly readable. It's not about NAFTA per se, but more about social and political dilemmas that globalization poses. Rodrik definitely has a point of view -- he's a lot more concerned about the destructive aspects of globalization than are most economists. But he's fair, and I learned an awful lot from this book. I read it for a graduate-level class on globalization, and it was definitely the best and most thoughtful of the assigned readings.

Posted by: vulture | Apr 26, 2006 11:12:42 PM

Shorter Rodrik:

WTO agreements on anti-dumping, subsidies and countervailing measures, agriculture, textiles, and trade-related intellectual property rights lack any economic rationale beyond the mercantilist interests of a narrow set of powerful groups in advanced industrial countries…

(Cited in some collection by Art/Jervis. Please don't make me dig it up.)

His take on NAFTA is probably similar.

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