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The Wealth of a Nation is an authoritative history of trade and the politics surrounding it from the nation's founding to the present. Authored by former U.S. congressman and U.S. Trade Representative C. Donald Johnson, it offers a powerful defense of the post-World War Two liberal economic order that America created, and explains why abandoning it will harm all Americans, including workers.
About the author
C. Donald Johnson is the Director Emeritus of the Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy at the University of Georgia. Previously, Ambassador Johnson was a partner at the law firm of Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in the law related to international trade and investment, national security and foreign policy issues.
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The Wealth of a Nation is an authoritative history of trade and the politics surrounding it from the nation's founding to the present. Authored by former U.S. congressman and U.S. Trade Representative C. Donald Johnson, it offers a powerful defense of the post-World War Two liberal economic order that America created, and explains why abandoning it will harm all Americans, including workers.
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Johnson offers numerous biographical sketches and a readable historical narrative with an increasing focus on movements, legal battles, and political pressure groups as he moves toward the present. Readers looking for current topics will take interest in his detailed discussion of labor issues as a central concern of trade politics in the late 20th and early 21st centuries and the attempts by pro-trade politicians to satisfy the interests of an anti-trade labor movement.
