Myths of Free Trade

Why American Trade Policy Has Failed

Sherrod Brown is currently a junior United States Senator from the State of Ohio and a member of the Democratic Party.

More than a decade after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the majority of Mexicans are still living in poverty while more than one million American jobs have been lost. Free Trade is a false dogma that Brown has set out to dispel myth by myth in this timely work. From the coffee fields of Nicaragua to the sweatshops all over Asia, Brown illustrates very well with real examples of how Free Trade has benefited a select few while exploiting the majority of the worlds’ population , often with devastating effects.

The book is well written but it needs more organisation. Concepts are duplicated and sometimes repeated over throughout the book. At times, this makes the work seem like a helpless Democrat agenda as arguments are imbalanced and often portrayed to the author’s benefit. Nonetheless the problems highlighted are real and it is about time the leaders of the world take notice.