Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital

By Kimberly Clausing

Categories: Business & Money, Politics & Social Sciences

Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (2019) is a book by economist Kimberly Clausing. Clausing argues that open trade, immigration and cross-border investment raise American living standards and that progressives should defend them while helping displaced workers with wage insurance and training. She offers data-driven replies to tariff politics, China-shock debates and zero-sum views of globalization.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “My book of the week is Kimberly Clausing's "Open: The Progressive Case For Free Trade, Immigration and Global Capital." I wish every Democratic candidate would read this book. It's a highly intelligent, fact-based defense of the virtues of an open competitive economy and society.”