Corporate management can be better or worse. Workers for a certain firm can be more or less productive.

Tough domestic competitors can create just as much disruption as tough foreign competitors. Sometimes a

new product is a hit with consumers; sometimes it is a flop. Sometimes a company is blessed by a run of good

luck or stricken with a run of bad luck. For some firms, international trade will offer great opportunities for

expanding productivity and jobs; for other firms, trade will impose stress and pain. The disruption caused by

international trade is not fundamentally different from all the other disruptions caused by the other workings

of a market economy.

In other words, the economic analysis of free trade does not rely on a belief that foreign trade is not disruptive

or does not pose tradeoffs; indeed, the story of Technotron begins with a particular disruptive market
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