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What Do We Know About the Impact of Offshore Investment on the U.S. Economy?

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The Taxation of Multinational Corporations

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In a new study of American opinion, Economic Nationalism and the Future of American Politics, Ruy Teixeira and Guy Molyneux argue that popular anxiety about American economic decline is feeding fears of foreign investment and low-wage imports and focusing Americans’ attention on the link between jobs and trade. According to Teixeira and Molyneux, 67 percent of Americans favor “restricting foreign imports to protect American industry and American jobs,” and 70 percent think foreign investment is “bad” for the United States.1

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Leamer, E.E. (1996). What Do We Know About the Impact of Offshore Investment on the U.S. Economy?. In: Slemrod, J. (eds) The Taxation of Multinational Corporations. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1818-4_6

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