Fwd: FW: NAFTA has harmed workers in all three countries

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>May I make one more fruitless plea for somebody, somewhere to raise 
>>the level of the debate?
>
>I doubt we have the same objections to this report, but I'm still 
>struck by how it seems to rely on figuring the increase in the U.S. 
>trade deficit since NAFTA took effect, dividing it by some average 
>annual earnings figure, and assuming that equals the number of jobs 
>lost.

That's a fine objection to the report to start with--especially since 
it then implies (an implication somehow unmentioned in the report) 
that NAFTA has been an enormous job machine for Mexico...

Brad DeLong