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Debate: Free trade
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- Debate: Protectionism
- Argument: Free trade allows for specialization across countries
- Argument: A country's trade balance (imports vs. exports) is largely irrelevant
- Argument: NAFTA brought in a flood of foreign investment for Mexico
- Argument: Free trade increases the purchasing power of workers
- Argument: Companies outsourcing labor aren't investing enough in innovation
- Argument: American wages have not been harmed by NAFTA
- Argument: Multilingual labeling broadens product appeal
- Argument: NAFTA creates the problem of multilingual labeling on goods and products
- Debate: Globalization
- Argument: Free trade's notion of specialization is risky for countries
- Argument: NAFTA incentivizes the exploitation of poor labor laws in Mexico
- Argument: NAFTA limits exploitation of Mexico's weak intellectual property laws
- Argument: Free trade is unpopular
- AFL-CIO
- The steel industry in developed countries opposes free trade
- The agriculture industry in developed countries opposes free trade
- Textile and apparel industries in developed countries typically oppose free trade
- Import threatened industries
- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development supports free trade
- Argument: Global governance will make governing free trade possible
- Argument: Free trade undermines democratic processes
- Argument: Globalization will not eliminate the importance of physical participation in a foreign culture
- Argument: Globalization does not lead to the homogenization of culture
- Argument: Free trade promotes democracy
- Argument: Free trade promotes peace and stability internationally
- Argument: Free markets and free trade are ideal economic conditions
- Argument: Free market economies self-regulate socially, ethically, and morally
- Argument: Free markets and trade benefit the environment
- Argument: Free trade and markets benefit the environment
- Argument: Free trade and markets harm the environment
- Argument: Economic globalization is the best way to improve living standards globally
- Argument: Minimal government intervention in the markets is best
- Argument: Capitalism is a poor economic model
- Argument: Protectionism is a nationalistic and selfish world-view
- David Ricardo
- Argument: Free trade risks rapid capital flight from developing countries
- Argument: The benefits of trade are worth the risks
- Argument: Infant industries should be protected from free trade
- Argument: Protectionism is a poor way to promote infant industries
- Argument: NAFTA "fast track" authority necessary to bypass inept congress
- Argument: Globalization involves positive imitation of cultures
- Argument: Globalization is not rampant, remaining fairly limited in scope globally
- Argument: Free trade worsens income inequality
- Argument: Globalization has worsened poverty
- Argument: Free trade unequally benefits the wealthy
- Argument: Legislative processes are ineffectual in making trade agreements
- Argument: Globalization has improved living standards
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