Provides a roadmap for mature industrialized countries to participate in balanced growth without inciting trade wars or precipitating a global recession by adopting a policy of "managed free trade."
• Explains the intent behind current populist trends around the world and delivers a vision for global growth based on sustainable and equitable global trade
• Offers case studies of countries that have grown in different ways over the years to show how protectionist policies should be accompanied by industrial or technological policies, plans, and targets in order to avoid the isolationism that has resulted in such poor outcomes for citizens of countries such as Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, and Libya
• Outlines the case for linking international growth to environmental sustainability, especially trade between the United States and Mexico, Europe, and Asia
• Provides a robust understanding of how trade interacts with local economies through manufacturing and logistics, a field currently undergoing significant, technologically driven change