Free Trade under Fire
By D. Irwin. 2002
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Free trade is always under attack, more than ever in recent years. The imposition of numerous U.S. tariffs in 2018, and the retaliation those tariffs have drawn, has thrust trade issues to the top of the policy agenda. Critics contend that free trade brings economic pain, including plant closings and worker layoffs, and that trade agreements serve corporate interests, undercut domestic environmental regulations, and erode national sovereignty. Why are global trade and agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership so controversial? Does free trade deserve its bad reputation? This book aside the misconceptions that run rampant in the debate over trade and gives readers a clear understanding of the issues involved. In its fifth edition, the book has been updated to address the sweeping new policy developments under the Trump administration and the latest research on the impact of trade.
Subfields: Development
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- Product Fragmentation and Trade Patterns in East Asia (2005, background): “1 This phenomenon has gone under alternative names, such as ‘Vertical specialisation’ (Hummels, Rapoport and Yi 2001, Irwin 2002), ‘slicing the value chain’ (Krugman 1995), ‘international production sharing’ (Ng and Yeats 2001, Yeats 2001), and ‘outsourcing’ (Rangan and Lawrence 1999, Hanson,…”
- International migration: a panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows (2010, unknown): “Second, my work is the first one I am aware of to use the OECD (1997) data on international migration to systematically investigate the drivers of international flows of migrants.”
- Does free trade really reduce growth? Further testing using the economic freedom index (2005, unknown): “Rossi (2001), Greenaway et al. (2002), Irwin (2002a) , Irwin and Tervio (2002), Tybout (2003), and the survey”
- Institutions in International Relations: Understanding the Effects of the GATT and the WTO on World Trade (2007, background): “…Frieden and Martin 2002, 146+ 3+ The GATT went into effect in 1948 and was superseded by the World Trade Organization in 1995+ 4+ For example, see Bagwell and Staiger 2002b; Bhagwati 1991; Irwin 2002; Jackson 1997; Kahler 1995; and Ruggie 1993+ 5+ Rose 2004+ ht tp s: // do i.o rg /1 0.”