free trade

What do you think of free trade?

Many economists believe that free trade could promote welfare of the whole world, because each country could concentrate on their competitive industries. Then under certain resource condition, we...

Free Trade

I have been paying close attention to the economy lately, and espically the economists who keep talking about the wages in America and how most of us do not deserve them for the most part because of...

Free market...who coined this term?

can you explain the significance of free market. is it diffrent from free trade?

should india go for free trade agreements.

we have been seeing from past 3 yrs that our govt, is more and more going for free trade aggreements with varoius countries. it would indeed help our exporters and importers to trade with other...

Free, freer, and trade...what flavor cool aid?

rdan Trade policy and actual trade are related but different matters. This post from last year caught my eye, partly due to the discussion on tires from China. While any blog post has to be...

Travels of a Cheap Tire in the Global Economy

Tom Bozzoagrees with Ken (but observes that even Garth Brazelton falls for the 'Pareto fallacy' [*]), and sees Brazelton's (so far) one anonymous comment, which takes issue with Brazelton's...

Trade policy debate to begin for mid-term elections?

rdanTrade policy debate begins in Pennsylvania?America’s economy is now struggling to recover from the Great Recession. But even when the economy was said to be humming, it did not work for most...

"Battles" Does Not Mean What You Think It Does

Headline from the Christian Science Monitor: "As G-20 battles protectionism, a cautionary tale in Ecuador" [emphasis mine]Subhead for that same article: "The country has put steep tariffs on an...

Some in Washington notice that stimulus plans are all protectionist

And yes, this isn't an all or nothing scenario as some are suggesting. There are obviously degrees of protectionism in existence already so quit acting like it's not a fact. Every country has their...

Why not ask free trade politicians to put some skin in the game?

The Post has another "protectionist" debate article today and this issue has me a bit worked up today. It's too easy for politicians to preach the benefits but for many outsiders, it appears to be...

Protectionism is the hot subject of debate - so what?

Since the day Obama was sworn in, the French have been obsessed with what new protectionist policy Obama will or won't promote. Oh really? While I sympathize with the people of Roquefort in their...

Bush promotes free trade at final summit

Despite the his policies crumbling around him he remains oblivious to the failures until the very end. The so-called "free trade" has been a farce and never free. Well sure, it's been free as long...

Accurate Headline: After three years of U.S. recession, Canada looks East

The WSJ wants to pretend that Barack Obama is responsible for Canada making a good decision:Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France signed an agreement Friday to begin...

You, Me and China make Three, part II

Back on April 20th I presented my introduction to a book by Will Hutton: The Writing on the Wall. First, the book is 334 pages. The list of references 39 pages. There is a lot I could cover. But...