Free trade today

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Free trade today

Jagdish Bhagwati

Princeton University Press, c2002

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Free trade, indeed economic globalization generally, is under siege. The conventional arguments for protectionism have been discredited but not banished. And free trade faces strong new challenges from a variety of groups, including environmentalists and human rights activists as well as traditional lobbies who wrap their agendas in the language of justice and rights. These groups, claiming a general interest and denouncing free trade as a special interest of corporations and other capitalist forces, have organized large and vocal protests in Seattle, Prague, and elsewhere. Based on his acclaimed Stockholm lectures and picking up where his widely influential "Protectionism" left off, Jagdish Bhagwati applies critical insights from revolutionary developments in commercial policy theory - many his own - to show how the pursuit of social and environmental agendas can be creatively reconciled with the pursuit of free trade. Indeed, he argues that free trade, by raising living standards, can serve these agendas far better than can a descent into trade sanctions and restrictions. After settling the score in favour of free trade, Professor Bhagwati considers alternative ways in which it c

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Preface vii LECTURE 1 Confronting Conventional Threats to Free Trade: The Postwar Revolution in the Theory of Commercial Policy 1 LECTURE 2 "Fair Trade," Income Distribution, and Social Agendas: Using Trade Theory to Meet New Challenges 45 LECTURE 3 Getting to Free Trade: Alternative Approaches and Their Theoretical Rationale 91 Index 121

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