Alan Tonelson (born 1953) is an American research fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council Educational Foundation. He has written extensively on the

trade deficit Balance of trade is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports of goods over a certain time period. Sometimes, trade in services is also included in the balance of trade but the official IMF definition only consi ...

between the United States and other countries. He has also written on

free trade Free trade is a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports. In government, free trade is predominantly advocated by political parties that hold Economic liberalism, economically liberal positions, while economic nationalist politica ...

globalization Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. This is made possible by the reduction of barriers to international trade, th ...

and industrial decline. He argues that U.S. economic policy should aim for "preeminence" over other countries, just as, he believes, other countries' economic policies seek their own national interests. He is critical of various forms of

globalism Globalism has multiple meanings. In political science, it is used to describe "attempts to understand all of the interconnections of the modern world—and to highlight patterns that underlie (and explain) them". While primarily associated wit ...

and

internationalism Internationalism may refer to: * Cosmopolitanism, the view that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality as opposed to communitarianism, patriotism and nationalism * International Style, a major architectura ...

. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in History at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

. He has no formal training in economics and has never published a paper in a peer-reviewed economics journal. In 2002 he became a fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center. He has also worked as an associate editor of the Foreign Policy journal and Fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute. He has appeared also on radio and television broadcasts, such as the ''

PBS NewsHour ''PBS News Hour'', previously stylized as ''PBS NewsHour'', is the news division of PBS and an American daily evening news broadcasting#television, television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS Network affiliate#Member stations, member stat ...

'' and ''

Nightly Business Report ''Nightly Business Report'' was an American business news magazine television program that aired on public television stations from January 22, 1979 to December 27, 2019, for most of that time syndicated by American Public Television. Internat ...

''.The Globalist, "Alan Tomlinson," http://www.theglobalist.com/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=296

Bibliography

Books

*''The Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards'', Basic Books, 2002. as co-author: *with Clyde V. Prestowitz and Ronald A. Morse, ''Powernomics'', Madison Books, 1991.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tonelson, Alan Princeton University alumni 1953 births 21st-century American writers American political commentators Place of birth missing (living people) Living people