Econ 201 International Trade

Link to slides

TA Handout

Class notes on International Trade

For interest:

• Deloitte Consulting's Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index

• US manufacturing as a share of total non-farm employment

• Wow, these are some annoying, dumb, tariffs (Matthew Yglesias, Sept. 30, 2010)

• But...there are losers from opening to trade!  How should we feel about that?

• Everyplace is the best at...something

• The various US ports run trade deficits or surpluses (but only three run surpluses).  (New York Times, January 3, 2009)

• I am an exporter!  Ah, foreigners at NU...they TA our classes, kill our curves, and reduce our trade deficit

• Google is an exporter!

For amusement:

• "Scientists now say that within 40 years, robots will be doing most of the jobs we don't want to do, especially undocumented robots from Mexico." –Jay Leno

• Effects of the depreciating dollar  Albert Wesker has an interesting observation about the effects of the decline of the dollar on choices some Americans make.

• Worst TV commercial ever?  At least we're not letting in Frenchmen who spout off about Say's Law.

• Who is stealing our jobs?  Foreigners?  Or robots?!  Seriously, this may be the best thing Drew Carey has ever done.