All Posts Tagged With: "WTO"
We Have Enough Globalization?
Jude Blanchette is a freelance writer living in Shanghai. The debate over free trade is, and has been for over 200 years, quite contentious. In reading over the historical debates, it often seems as if no ground has been made by the advocates of a global, borderless economy. Indeed, this is what makes reading Adam [...]
1Jun2007 | Jude Blanchette | 0 comments | ContinuedTraitor or Trader?
Daniel Sumner is in trouble. Sumner, an agricultural economist at UC Davis, has been accused of betraying his country. What has Sumner done? Given the charge, you might assume that he has aided terrorists or leaked nuclear secrets. Or perhaps shared some sophisticated technology with America’s enemies.
1Sep2004 | Russell Roberts | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – June 2004
Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments by Benjamin Constant Liberty Fund • 2003 • 558 pages • $22 hardcover; $12 paperback Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling Nowhere does one find such clear and lucid expositions and defenses of human liberty as those found among the French classical liberals of the nineteenth century, a group [...]
1Jun2004 | FEE Admin | 6 comments | ContinuedNo Dog in that Fight
As satisfying as it was to see the World Trade Organization meeting reduced to dithering, no meticulous free trader could have taken sides in the confrontation last fall involving the WTO bureaucrats, the street mob, and the jackbooted Seattle police. There were no “Free Traders Against the WTO” signs in sight. The free trade movement, [...]
1Feb2000 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Managed Trade Is Not Free Trade
The British historian Thomas Babington Macaulay observed that free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can bestow, is in almost every country unpopular.[1] Indeed, sound economics often makes for unsuccessful politics. That free trade is a great benefactor is one of the most convincingly established truths of economic science.[2] The economic case [...]
1Aug1997 | Robert Batemarco | 18 comments | Continued-
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