Trade wars are class wars : how rising inequality distorts the global economy and threatens international peace

"Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as this book shows, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. A thought-provoking challenge to the mainstream view of international trade, this book looks at how the class wars of rising inequality over the past thirty years are beh...