Reddit reviews The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protection (3rd Edition)
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Tariffs are bad for everyone. They inhibit our ability to allocate resources efficiently. They increase prices which hurts lower and middle class families. If manufacturing jobs can be done more efficiently in China, they should be done there, and we should be using the money we're saving to re-educate our own workforce to do higher skilled jobs like medical research, computer programming, etc. Using unions to prop up basic manufacturing jobs is not going to make us better off in the long run.
Definitely, definitely check out Russ Robert's book, The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protection. Even if it's just to see the other side of things. It will clear up a lot of your misconceptions with regard to international trade and protectionism.
The human element has always been and forever will be irreplaceable. Try reading this book, it really helped me understand the situation.
Seriously, it's 5 bucks. https://www.amazon.com/Choice-Fable-Free-Trade-Protection/dp/0131433547
have you read the book The Choice
If you are interested in books that read as generic non-fiction books and not as textbooks, these two were interesting to me and assigned by professors (one of my majors was economics).
The Choice by Russell Roberts is a very accessible text about international trade (so this book will definitely drive home how free trade is best for society as a whole) but its themes are relevant to general economic theory as well. It is written in the form of Platonic conversation where the entire story is just two people talking back and forth in a question:answer format. My macro professor made all of his classes read it, even his honors students.
The Ultimate Resource 2 by Julian Lincoln Simon explores issues of resource scarcity, population dynamics, and technology diffusion; each of these is important to economic theory and the themes and anecdotes explored here are common to economics. Some of the ideas expressed might fall more into the Austrian/Libertarian camp, but certainly not all (it isn't always black-and-white).
The benefit is the american consumer. It was all explained in this book https://www.amazon.com/Choice-Fable-Free-Trade-Protection/dp/0131433547
It said that the consumer would benefit even if just your own country dropped trade barriers. This concept is also taught in entry level economics courses.
For those interested i figured out what it was its called The Choice
https://www.amazon.com/Choice-Fable-Free-Trade-Protection/dp/0131433547