Globalization, American Wages, And Inequality

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in American politics: economics teaches that globalization leads to national gains, yet popular opinion is am bivalent at best about it. This puzzle even comes with a plausible-sounding explanation: globalization’s benefits are huge but diffuse (consisting of lower prices for imported goods), while its costs are small but concentrated (workers displaced by imports); hence, the gains are hard to see but the losses are all too visible...
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in American politics: economics teaches that globalization leads to national gains, yet popular opinion is am bivalent at best about it. This puzzle even comes with a plausible-sounding explanation: globalization’s benefits are huge but diffuse (consisting of lower prices for imported goods), while its costs are small but concentrated (workers displaced by imports); hence, the gains are hard to see but the losses are all too visible...
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