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UNIT1 Free Trade Has Enriched the World with More than Diverse Goods 自由贸易给世界带来的不仅是丰富多彩的商品 By Daniel Griswold Tune in to cable TV, talk radio, or the blogosphere and you will soon be hit over the head with the message that free trade is destroying America. According to the economic populists on the left and right, the wages, jobs, and futures of Main Street Americans are being sacrificed daily to the gods of globalization.只要打开有线电视、收音机或博客网，你很快就会惊讶地获悉： 自由贸易正在摧毁美国。据左右两派经济民粹主义者所说，美国普通老百姓的工资、工作和未来天天都在被当作供品献祭给全球化的神明们。 On trade, as on so much else, the populists have it wrong again. Free trade and globalization are great blessings to American families. Trade is delivering lower prices and more variety to consumers, especially the poor, while creating better paying jobs for the middle class. Beyond the US shores, the spread of economic openness is building a more peaceful, democratic and humane world for our children.就像在其他许多事情上一样，这些民粹主义者们在贸易问题上又搞错了。自由贸易与全球化对美国家庭来说是种种福音。贸易在为中产阶级创造了许多薪酬丰厚的工作岗位的同时，也为消费者（尤其是穷人）带来了价格低廉、品种多样的商品。席卷美国内外的经济开放浪潮正在为我们的孩子们创建一个更为和谐、民主和人性化的世界。 Now it may seem an odd moment to tout the benefits of trade for Main Street America. After all, unemployment is nearing 10 percent, manufacturing is in a slump, and global poverty is rising. But those are all the result of the current recession, a downturn that was not caused by trade but by misguided monetary and housing policies that were “Made in the USA”.看起来，现在吹嘘贸易给美国百姓带来好处似乎并不合时宜。毕竟，目前的失业率几乎高达10%，制造业也处于萧条之中，而全球范围的贫困在不断加剧。但是，那些问题都是眼前的经济衰退所带来的后果，这是一种经济下滑现象，它不是由贸易、而是由“美国制造”的错误的货币政策和房地产政策造成的。 During difficult economic times, import competition allows American families to keep their heads above water by delivering lower prices on staples such as food, clothing, and shoes. The prices we pay for goods exposed to global trade tend to rise more slowly than inflation, or even fall. The expansion of product variety alone from trade delivers an estimated 400 billion a year in benefits to American f