The Great Escape: The Multinational Trade Deficit in Historical Perspective

Craig Medlen

Journal of Economic Issues, 2018, vol. 52, issue 1, 227-245

Abstract: During the Bretton Woods era, the debate surrounding U.S. export sales versus U.S. multinational production focused primarily on the maintenance of pegged exchange rates and labor’s concern over the export of jobs. The collapse of Bretton Woods gave at least the hope that a decline in the dollar would expand exports and limit imports. Yet, the forty-year secular decline in the dollar has been one with a secular expansion of U.S. trade deficits. The older concerns of U.S. multinational sales competing with U.S. exports retain a current relevance. They help explain the unending nature of U.S. trade deficits.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2018.1430952

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