Document Type
Article
Publication Title
The Humanist
Publisher
American Humanist Association and the American Ethical Union
Publication Date
3-1995
Publisher location
Buffalo, NY
First Page
5
Last Page
36
Issue Number
2
Volume Number
55
Abstract/ Summary
On November 17,1993, the U.S. Congress passed the North American Free Trade Agreement, which became the law of the land in Canada, Mexico, and the United States on January 1, 1994. Despite the passage of over a year, there has been precious little discussion of the economic results of the "free trade" agreement. In fact, until the recent devaluation of the Mexican peso, proponents of NAFTA had claimed that the matter was settled and not worthy of further discussion or investigation. It was a fait accompli, they said; time to move on to other, more pressing social and political issues. The irony of this thinly disguised attempt to stifle public inquiry is that only now—one year after the passage of NAFTA—can its impact be tested in the field and reality substituted for rhetoric.
Repository Citation
Burke, Melvin; Schwartz, Kraig A.; and Steele, William G., "NAFTA Numbers Don't Add Up" (1995). School of Economics Faculty Scholarship. 19.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/eco_facpub/19
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Burke, M.,, Schwartz, K.A., & Steele, William G. (1995). NAFTA Numbers Don't Add Up. The Humanist, Mar/Apr 55(2), 5, 36.
Publisher Statement
© Copyright 1995 by the American Humanist Association and the American Ethical Union
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