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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jagdish N Bhagwati |
| ISBN: | 0691091560 9780691091563 |
| OCLC Number: | 47695960 |
| Description: | ix, 128 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Lecture 1. Confronting conventional threats to free trade: the postwar revolution in the theory of commercial policy -- Lecture 2. "Fair trade," income distribution, and social agendas: using trade theory to meet new challenges -- Lecture 3. Getting to free trade: alternative approaches and their theoretical rationale. |
| Responsibility: | Jagdish Bhagwati. |
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A delight to read; and Bhagwati's irrepressible personality bubbles through on every page... [A] ride that is worth the ticket. -- Robert Lawrence Financial Times Jagdish Bhagwati is a very distinguished writer, with a world reputation as a careful but passionate proponent of free trade. Times Literary Supplement One of the best things about the book is that it confounds stereotypes. Mr. Bhagwati, it emerges clearly, is a liberal in both the old and new senses of the word: he is for free trade, but he is for ambitious social policies too. The Economist The book is breezy and nontechnical in style, yet highly sophisticated in content. [Bhagwati] provides a spirited riposte to all critics, to whom he pays respect by taking them seriously. He then proceeds to demolish their positions, finding them in logical error, empirically unsupported, or reflecting valid concerns that are better addressed directly rather than indirectly by restricting trade, which would impose unnecessary costs. Foreign Affairs Free Trade Today is short and thoroughly readable, summarizing the key argument in an easy, folksy manner. -- Michael Brennan Policy A presentation by a future Nobel Laureate. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Free Trade Today ... is entertaining and scholarly and, of course, authoritative... Bhagwati is magisterial, dealing succinctly with general theory and its application to current debates. -- L. Alan Winters International Finance A pleasure to read--unusually for an economist, Bhagwati writes with wit and verve. -- Vijay Joshi and Robert Skidelsky New York Review of Books Read more...
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- Free trade.
- Free trade -- Environmental aspects.
- Free trade -- Social aspects.
- Free trade -- United States.
- International economic relations.
- Libre-échange.
- Libre-échange -- Aspect de l'environnement.
- Libre-échange -- Aspect social.
- Libre-échange -- États-Unis.
- Relations économiques internationales.
- Vrijhandel.
- Ecologische aspecten.
- Sociale aspecten.
- Freihandel.
- TRADE LIBERALIZATION.
- ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS.
- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
- SOCIAL ASPECTS.
- INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS.
- Livre comércio.
- Livre comércio -- aspectos sociais.
- Livre comércio -- Estados Unidos.
- Política comercial -- Estados Unidos.
- Relações econômicas internacionais.
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