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

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Free trade, indeed economic globalization generally, is under siege. The conventional arguments for protectionism have been discredited but not banished. And fr

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