Free trade doesn't work: what should replace it and why

✍ Scribed by Luttwak, Edward;Fletcher, Ian

• Publisher: USBIC;U.S. Business and Industry Council
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The bad arguments for free trade -- Deficits, time horizons, and perverse efficiency -- Trade solutions that won't work -- Critiques of free trade to avoid -- Ye Olde Theory of Comparative Advantage -- The deliberately forgotten history of trade -- The negligible benefits of free trade -- The disingenuous law and diplomacy of free trade -- Where does growth really come from? -- The multiple equilibrium revolution -- The natural strategic tariff -- The end of the Free Trade Coalition.

✦ Table of Contents

The bad arguments for free trade --
Deficits, time horizons, and perverse efficiency --
Trade solutions that won't work --
Critiques of free trade to avoid --
Ye Olde Theory of Comparative Advantage --
The deliberately forgotten history of trade --
The negligible benefits of free trade --
The disingenuous law and diplomacy of free trade --
Where does growth really come from? --
The multiple equilibrium revolution --
The natural strategic tariff --
The end of the Free Trade Coalition.

✦ Subjects

Commerce international;Intégration économique internationale;Libre-échange--États-Unis;Free trade--United States;Globalization--Economic aspects--Developing countries;Foreign trade regulation;Free trade;Globalization--Economic aspects;International economic integration;Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries;Free trade -- United States;Intégration économique internationale;Libre-échange -- États-Unis;Globalization -- Economic aspects;Developing countries;United States