Chapter 6

Moody, "Is Buying American-made Important?"

1. What benefits, if any, are foreign owned car manufactures doing for U.S. towns and cities?

Stossel, "The Stupidity of Buy American"

1. How can we view sweatshops as a good thing?

Chapter 7

Sugarcane.org "U.S. Sugar Policy"

1. What are the three ways that the U.S. government protects the sugar industry?

Crandall, "The Effects of U.S. Trade Protection for Autos and Steel " (pp. 274-276)

1. This policy seems like a terrible deal for the Japanese. Why would Japanese automakers agree to the deal?

Chapter 8

Krugman, "In Praise of Cheap Labor: Bad Jobs at Bad Wages are better than No Jobs at All"

1. Why do workers accept such low wages in developing countries?
2. If we view such cheap wages as immoral and it makes us feel uneasy, why then can it still be bad to provide even higher wages to make Americans feel better?

Vidal, "What does more environmental damage: eating meat from the wild or a factory farm?

1.Explain the effects of removing the wildlife meat trade.