October 3, 2024 1:30PM # New Defending Globalization Content: The Trade Balance, Globalization of Popular Music, and Globalized Film and TV By [Scott Lincicome](https://www.cato.org/people/scott-lincicome) --- SHARE Listen to this article Generated with [ ElevenLabs](https://elevenlabs.io/) AI technology. Loading the [Elevenlabs Text to Speech](https://elevenlabs.io/text-to-speech) AudioNative Player... Today we’ve published three new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: “[The Trade Balance and Winning at Trade](https://www.cato.org/publications/trade-balance-winning-trade),” by Andreas Freytag and Phil Levy, explains that the trade balance is a particularly bad measure of national well-being. “[The Globalization of Popular Music](https://www.cato.org/publications/globalization-popular-music),” by Clark Packard, traces how popular music became globalized, with particular attention paid to the Beatles. “[The Democratic Promise of Globalized Film and Television](https://www.cato.org/publications/trade-arts/culture),” by Paul Matzko, shows that viewers today enjoy a larger, more diverse selection of high-quality video content than ever before—and even greater changes may be on the way. And in case you missed it earlier this week—we worked with a major multinational retailer to make our own T‑shirt, which followed a surprisingly complex supply chain involving dozens of people in several countries, including the United States. We also created a new website to document the [T‑shirt’s journey](https://www.cato.org/visual-feature/globalization-unfolded) from idea to doorstep. This content joins 36 other essays and additional multimedia features on the main [Defending Globalization project page](https://www.cato.org/defending-globalization). Make sure to check it all out and stay tuned for future releases. ##### Related Tags [Defending Globalization](https://www.cato.org/defending-globalization), [Trade Policy](https://www.cato.org/trade-policy) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).