Putting tariffs on imported goods or setting other barriers to international trade can be tempting for politicians. They assume that many of their constituents

"Through a combination of text, quotations, cartoons, tables, charts, and graphs, Bhagwati ... looks at the forces for and against protection."--Jacket.

The global financial crisis of 2008/9 is the Great Depression of the 21st century. For many though, the similarities stop at the Wall Street Crash as the curren

A history of America's most infamous tariff The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America

Chorev focuses on trade liberalization in the United States from the 1930s to the present as she explores the political origins of today's global economy.