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Free Trade under Fire: Third Edition
Author(s): Douglas A. Irwin (Author)
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication Date: 9 Aug. 2009
- Edition: Third
- Language: English
- Print length: 328 pages
- ISBN-10: 0691143153
- ISBN-13: 9780691143156
Book Description
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 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 involved. This third edition has been thoroughly updated to include the latest developments in world trade–including the practice of off-shoring services, the impact of trade on wages, and the implications of trade with China-based on the latest research.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“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] successfully parries nearly all arguments leveled against free trade by its critics, and does so in an engaging style, which in itself makes for lively reading.””
—Gene Epstein, Barron’s“Praise for Princeton’s previous editions: “Vigorous and persuasive. . . . [Irwin] offers an especially informative chapter on antidumping duties, which have historically been supported in the name of ensuring ‘fair trade.'””
—Richard Cooper, Foreign Affairs
