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The Free Trade Debate

Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Joseph E. Stiglitz
| Apr 25, 2008
Joseph Stiglitz and Gary Hufbauer

The Fair Play Debate: Fair Trade

Joseph E. Stiglitz | Apr 25, 2008
The odds are against developing countries when it comes to trade. Social safeguards level the playing field.

The Fair Play Debate: Free Trade

Gary Clyde Hufbauer | Apr 25, 2008
Rhetoric aside, free trade can benefit everyone—if only countries were a little more open to the rules of the game.

Trading Up

Shanker A. Singham | Jul 01, 2007
Policymakers can break down regulatory barriers to trade by concerning themselves with consumer, not producer, welfare.

Poverty and Globalization

Shanker A. Singham
Donna Hrinak
| Dec 01, 2005
Protecting consumer interests is the path to global peace and prosperity.

Trading Places

Peter F. Drucker | Mar 01, 2005
America has long been the world's number one economy. It won't be soon.
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Commentary

Intellectual-Property Pirates of the Caribbean

Simon Lester | Feb 22, 2013
Antigua might open up a new front against the United States in international trade enforcement.

The Strange Politics of U.S.-EU Free Trade

Sarah Bauerle Danzman
W. Kindred Winecoff
| Feb 14, 2013
Normally special-interest groups harmed by competition can fight free trade. Where did they go?

American Decline and the Liberal Order

Ali Wyne | Dec 12, 2012
The fall in Washington's relative power doesn't have to end Washington's international leadership.
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Books & Reviews

A Champion for the Bourgeoisie

Leon Aron | Mar 01, 2004
A fictional 19th-century detective disdains Russia's intelligentsia and preaches a bourgeois sermon on virtue and responsible citizenship to Russia's nascent middle class.

Imperialism: the Highest Stage of American Capitalism?

Gideon Rose | Mar 01, 2003
Andrew Bacevich's American Empire is really two books in one: one quite good, the other quite inexplicable.

Capital Ideas

Harold James | Sep 01, 2002
A look at the poverty of some contending economic fundamentalisms.
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