Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers
本书利用美国公众舆论数据库的数据，分析美国工人对全球化的认知和态度，揭示劳动力市场利益如何影响人们对贸易、移民等全球化政策的看法。
Recent WTO and IMF/World Bank meetings have attracted mass protests and voices of opposition from a wide variety of people. Opposition to trade and globalisation policies come from individuals and groups and is liked to preferences and perceptions. Scepticism about the costs and benefits of globalisation are on the increase and date back long before Ross Perot (a 1993 US presidential candidate) famously voiced his opposition to the reduction of international trade barriers when he argued that if America ‘just stopped trading with the rest of the world, we'd be $100 billion ahead’. So does ‘Joe Public’ understand globalisation issues or are they on a bandwagon of objection? This timely microeconomic analysis of individuals perceptions of (economic) globalisation [defined in this book as the ‘increased integration of product and factor markets across countries via trade, immigration and FDI’ (page 1)] highlights the role of labour market interests in shaping perceptions of and preferences about globalisation. Extracting data from a variety of primary sources all assembled in the American Public Opinion Databank, Slaughter and Scheve present a picture of the views of a broad population of Americans about globalisation and identify attitudes of the masses to international economic policy.