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Research Professor Ralph Gomory shares his views on American manufacturing for our next president

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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Our present wide-open economy and the current orientation of our major corporations make our nation an excellent target for mercantilist exploitation. Although we like to imagine that we are in a world of free trade, the world that we live in is not like that. It is to a considerable extent, a world of mercantilism---a world in which many foreign governments do whatever it takes to make their industries succeed. Our vulnerability to these tactics can be traced to the doctrine of shareholder primacy, profit as the only corporate goal."

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