Some Elements of a Progressive International Trade Policy
There are other ways to organize U.S. international trade. The neoliberal free trade of recent decades and the trade restrictions of Trumpian tariffs are not the only options.
There is a great deal of awareness of the general increase of income inequality in the United States. But what's happened to the income inequality between African Americans and European Americans ("Black-White" inequality)?
Do corporations seek to maximize profits? Or do they seek to maximize power? The two may be complementary--wealth begets power,
Investment in real inputs--structures and machinery used to boost future output and productivity--is one of the ways that an economy