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Free Trade under Fire: Fourth Edition
Douglas A. Irwin
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Description for Free Trade under Fire: Fourth Edition
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 30 line illus. 12 tables. BIC Classification: KCA; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 213 x 29. Weight in Grams: 520.
Growing international trade has helped lift living standards around the world, and yet free trade is always under attack. Critics complain that trade forces painful economic adjustments, such as plant closings and layoffs of workers, and charge that the World Trade Organization serves the interests of corporations, undercuts domestic environmental regulations, and erodes America's sovereignty. Why has global trade--and trade agreements such as NAFTA--become so controversial? Does free trade deserve its bad reputation? In Free Trade under Fire, Douglas Irwin sweeps aside the misconceptions that litter the debate over trade and gives the reader a clear understanding of the issues ... Read more
Growing international trade has helped lift living standards around the world, and yet free trade is always under attack. Critics complain that trade forces painful economic adjustments, such as plant closings and layoffs of workers, and charge that the World Trade Organization serves the interests of corporations, undercuts domestic environmental regulations, and erodes America's sovereignty. Why has global trade--and trade agreements such as NAFTA--become so controversial? Does free trade deserve its bad reputation? In Free Trade under Fire, Douglas Irwin sweeps aside the misconceptions that litter the debate over trade and gives the reader a clear understanding of the issues ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691166254
SKU
V9780691166254
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99-1
About Douglas A. Irwin
Douglas A. Irwin is professor of economics at Dartmouth College and the author of Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade, Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression (both Princeton), and Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s.
Reviews for Free Trade under Fire: Fourth Edition
Praise for Princeton's previous editions: A wealth of reporting, both of trade-theory debates and of recent political battles in America over trade, is elegantly squeezed into the book... If [Free Trade Under Fire does] not change trade sceptics' minds, it is hard to think what else would.
Economist Praise for Princeton's previous editions: [Irwin] sets out most of ... Read more
Economist Praise for Princeton's previous editions: [Irwin] sets out most of ... Read more