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Your papers on APPL, BA & F. Watch outs. A company is an “it” not a “they” “Boeing generates its international sales in Burundi and East Timor.”. Watch outs. A company is an “it” not a “they” “Boeing generates its international sales in Burundi and East Timor.”
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Watch outs.... • A company is an “it” not a “they” • “Boeing generates its international sales in Burundi and East Timor.”
Watch outs.... • A company is an “it” not a “they” • “Boeing generates its international sales in Burundi and East Timor.” • “$200 billion” not “two hundred billion dollars” or “200 billion dollars”
Watch outs.... • A company is an “it” not a “they” • “Boeing generates its international sales in Burundi and East Timor.” • “$200 billion” not “two hundred billion dollars” or “200 billion dollars” • Two adjectives before a noun gets a hyphen (usually)
Watch outs.... • A company is an “it” not a “they” • “Boeing generates its international sales in Burundi and East Timor.” • “$200 billion” not “two hundred billion dollars” or “200 billion dollars” • Two adjectives before a noun gets a hyphen (usually) • “Apple’s research-savvy team generates new products.”
One more watch out • It’s = it is • “Its” is possessive • “Apple generates its sales via the internet.” • “It’s possible for Apple to continue growing.”
So why does public not support international trade? • Our old friends trade fallacies
So why does public not support international trade? • Our old friends trade fallacies • Protectionism in Europe estimated to cost $215,000 per year per job
So why does public not support international trade? • Our old friends trade fallacies • Protectionism in Europe estimated to cost $215,000 per year per job • “the costs are not simply their salaries, but the even larger costs of producing in less efficient ways, using up scarce resources that would be more productive elsewhere”
Why is “globalization” a naughty word? • Anti-globalization critics see international trade as destroying nations, the environment, small farms, etc. • International trade is just extension of specialization that marks every modern economy
Why is “globalization” a naughty word? • Anti-globalization critics see international trade as destroying nations, the environment, small farms, etc. • International trade is just extension of specialization that marks every modern economy • Why don’t we make our own socks and jeans?
Why is “globalization” a naughty word? • Anti-globalization critics see international trade as destroying nations, the environment, small farms, etc. • International trade is just extension of specialization that marks every modern economy • Why don’t we make our own socks and jeans? • We’re better off buying them from Vietnam and concentrating on software and lattes
Good summary of international trade: • International trade is not a zero-sum contest, but wide array of voluntary transactions between individuals living in different countries who all must gain... another way getting more out of SRTHAU
Trade to GDP ratio • Total of imports & exports as a percent of GDP
Trade to GDP ratio • Total of imports & exports as a percent of GDP • China: 58%
Trade to GDP ratio • Total of imports & exports as a percent of GDP • China: 58% • U.S.:27.6%
Trade to GDP ratio • Total of imports & exports as a percent of GDP • China: 58% • U.S.:27.6% • U.S. is world’s leading importer, #3 exporter and #1 in commercial services
so what do you need to know for next week’s test? • Zero sum thinking
so what do you need to know for next week’s test? • Zero sum thinking • Examples of “loaded” language such as “favorable trade balance,” “globalization,” “record trade deficit”
so what do you need to know for next week’s test? • Zero sum thinking • Examples of “loaded” language such as “favorable trade balance,” “globalization,” “record trade deficit” • How can both sides gain in international trade?
so what do you need to know for next week’s test? • Zero sum thinking • Examples of “loaded” language such as “favorable trade balance,” “globalization,” “record trade deficit” • How can both sides gain in international trade? • The three advantages: absolute, comparative and economies of scale
next week’s test • Know your trade fallacies
next week’s test • Know your trade fallacies • Low-wage and high-wage countries can’t trade
next week’s test • Know your trade fallacies • Low-wage and high-wage countries can’t trade • Need restrictions to ‘save jobs’
next week’s test • Know your trade fallacies • Low-wage and high-wage countries can’t trade • Need restrictions to ‘save jobs’: study Hawley-Smoot
next week’s test • Know your trade fallacies • Low-wage and high-wage countries can’t trade • Need restrictions to ‘save jobs’: study Hawley-Smoot • Protect infant industries
next week’s test • Know your trade fallacies • Low-wage and high-wage countries can’t trade • Need restrictions to ‘save jobs’: study Hawley-Smoot • Protect infant industries • Industry needed for national defense
next week’s test • Know your trade fallacies • Low-wage and high-wage countries can’t trade • Need restrictions to ‘save jobs’: study Hawley-Smoot • Protect infant industries • Industry needed for national defense • Stop ‘dumping’ of good into our country
next week’s test • Types of trade restrictions: tariffs, import quotas, red tape
next week’s test • Types of trade restrictions: tariffs, import quotas, red tape • How does wealth move between nations
next week’s test • Types of trade restrictions: tariffs, import quotas, red tape • How does wealth move between nations • I Design Big Refrigerators in France
next week’s test • Types of trade restrictions: tariffs, import quotas, red tape • How does wealth move between nations • I Design Big Refrigerators in France • Investments, Deposits, Bonds, Remittances, Imperialism, Foreign aid
next week’s test • Types of trade restrictions: tariffs, import quotas, red tape • How does wealth move between nations • I Design Big Refrigerators in France • Investments, Deposits, Bonds, Remittances, Imperialism, Foreign aid • IMG and World Bank
next week’s test • Types of trade restrictions: tariffs, import quotas, red tape • How does wealth move between nations • I Design Big Refrigerators in France • Investments, Deposits, Bonds, Remittances, Imperialism, Foreign aid • IMG and World Bank • Emigrants and immigrants
next week’s test • Types of trade restrictions: tariffs, import quotas, red tape • How does wealth move between nations • I Design Big Refrigerators in France • Investments, Deposits, Bonds, Remittances, Imperialism, Foreign aid • IMG and World Bank • Emigrants and immigrants • WSJ story: “We’ve become a nation of takers”