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Alan Tonelson

Alan Tonelson is founder of the public policy blog RealityChek and author of The Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards. He has worked on trade policy with the presidential campaigns of Senator Bernie Sanders and President-elect Donald Trump and can be followed on Twitter @AlanTonelson.

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Dean Baker considerably improves upon America’s loud and often intellectually sloppy—even dishonest—globalization debate. His arguments are important and provocative. At the same time, Baker’s analysis significantly underestimates the actual and potential challenges...
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