A Timely Defense of Free Trade
Edward Goldberg’s Why Globalization Works for America offers a well-argued, timely defense of globalization.
Contra the Skeptics, Trade and Technology Really Do Benefit Most American Workers
Figuring out how to help the minority being left behind is policymakers’ most urgent challenge.
Anything-but-Straight Talk on Trade
Harvard economist Dani Rodrik’s new book “Straight Talk on Trade” is a dishonest attack on free markets.
Clashing over Commerce: A Historical View of Tariffs and Trade Policy
Douglas A. Irwin in his book Clashing over Commerce charts the history of protectionism and of its poor track record.
GOP Candidates Betray the Spirit of Reagan on Immigration
Immigration has loomed larger as an issue in the Republican presidential debates than it does in the minds of most voters. Driven by a minority of activists in their party, ...
Deal with the Dragon
Last fall, Democrats tried desperately to turn voters’ anxieties about trade with China into a winning issue on Election Day. Yet while Americans tell pollsters they worry about losing jobs ...
Abominable Economics
With friends like Jerome R. Corsi, the American free-enterprise system is in more trouble than we feared.
Corsi should be on the right side of the battle to defend economic freedom. ...
Smoot-Hawley-Dorgan
As he prepares to fill an important leadership post for the incoming Democratic congressional majority, never let it be said that Sen. Byron Dorgan hid his agenda. In a new ...
Fools to the Farm
Fewer than two percent of Americans farm for a living, and only a third of those farmers receive subsidies. Yet the interests of subsidized and protected farmers dominate every farm ...
The Road to Wealth
In Defense of Globalization, by Jagdish Bhagwati (Oxford, 320 pp., $28)
Public debate over globalization and free trade often sounds like an Abbott and Costello routine, with opposing sides using the ...