An updated look at global trade and why it remains as controversial as ever Free trade is always under attack, more than ever in recent years. The imposition of

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

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

Free trade is placed under the microscope and examined, with a particular emphasis on recent protests and movements against this powerful economic philosophy.

Argues that international financial cooperation is the only way out of the global economic crisis, and compares today's poor economic climate to the Great Depre