The Uncomfortable Truth about Nafta
It's Foreign Policy, Stupid
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3533055 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Krugman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 13 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20045808 |
| OpenAlex | W2546752522 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
likely consequences of the agreement, nor is the debate's outcome likely to turn on any serious examination of the evidence. It is as hopeless to try to argue with many of nafta's opponents as it would have been to try to convince William Jennings Bryan's followers that free silver was not the answer to farmers' problems. Indeed, the parallel is quite close. The populism of the 1890s represented a des perate attempt to defend agricultural America against deep economic forces that were changing it into an industrial nation. The choice of a monetary standard had very little to do with the real problems of the farm sector; a burst of inflation might have given some highly indebted farmers a brief respite, but it would have done nothing to reverse or even materially slow the industrializing trend. Nonetheless, the opposition between free silver and the standard was an easily understood symbol?you shall not crucify this country on a cross of gold was the nineteenth-century equivalent of a sound bite. And so the almost irrelevant demand for free silver became the core of the populist agenda. Similarly, the hard-core opposition to nafta is rooted in a modern populism
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| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,66 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2021 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |