This book examines the notion of "free trade" and the issues raised by adopting the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Essays by Ralph Nader, Jerry Brown, William Greider, Margaret Atwood, Mark Ritchie, Wendell Berry, Pat Choate, and others.
Canada Not for Sale: The Case Against Free Trade
A Case Against Free Trade & an Alternative General Trade Strategy
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--Paul Krugman, "Journal of Economic Literature". 14 photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. "This is a useful and valuable book that brings together a wide range of historical arguments for and against free trade.
Explains why free trade is bad for America from a conservative point of view. The authors are conservative activist William Shearer and economist Ian Fletcher.
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
... Journal of Labor Economics 34:S2 (2016), S67–S97; and Jae Song, David J. Price, Fatih Guvenen, Nicholas Bloom, and Till von Wachter, “Firming Up Inequality,” NBER Working Paper no, 21199, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015.
First published in the USA in 1996, in an edition focused on North America, the book won the American Political Science Association award for the Best Book in Ecological and Transformational Politics.
In this book he does two important things: he punctures all the standard false arguments for protection, and he uses the modern theory of commercial policy to suggest how a balanced approach to trade and social policy might look.