Dean Cowhey co-writes Opinion for SignOnSanDiego
With Bella Heule: "Doing what it takes for trade"
04/15/2010
Peter Cowhey and Bella Heule,
SignOnSanDiego.com
The Great Recession and the slow recovery have still not broadened the horizons of political and media leaders who think small. One might expect that local business leaders would eagerly embrace practical ways of growing the economy and jobs at low cost. But the idea of growing export sales and jobs by companies operating in the San Diego region gets very little attention, in part because too many still see the region as having an insular economy connected to the global arena only through the Navy and a handful of high-tech firms.
And, curiously, a bit of ill-directed populism has emerged that makes practical trade advocacy into a risky proposition for these leaders. That’s the charge that spending on travel to champion our firms is simply junketeering and pork barrel spending.
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Peter Cowhey is dean and Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Communications and Technology Policy at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
Cowhey can provide commentary on U.S. foreign policy, the future of communications and information technology markets and policy, the internet, trade policy, biological threats, international corporate strategy, and the microfinance industry to alleviate poverty.
