Why Do We Have to Argue the Case for Free Trade?
byI gave the following presentation at a fringe event during the Conservative conference in Birmingham. Human Co-operation and the Universal Division of Labour Adam…
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EU Referendum Campaign launched
byThis post originally appeared on stevebaker.info. Dan Hannan and Ruth Lea have launched the EU Referendum Campaign: The EURC is an organisation that is…
Halligan: West should concede on Doha
byThere was an excellent article from Liam Halligan in Sunday’s Telegraph: The stark underlying message from these WTO numbers is that the West’s inability…
The faith and folly of the Brussels elite
byIn his latest article for ConservativeHome, Steve Baker responds to comments by the departing Charlemagne columnist of The Economist. If the outgoing Charlemagne defines…
Free Trade, Peace, and Goodwill Among Nations: The Triumph of the Free Trade Movement in Great Britain
byWe are pleased to republish here an excellent article by Dr. Richard Ebeling, Professor of Economics at Northwood University. The article originally appeared in…
Cobden on Free Trade and its Relevance Today
byFood is on the whole cheap to us as an advanced or even a post industrial nation. Richard Cobden, with a small group of…
Corrigan on Sweden and China
bySweden, that Democratic Socialist paradise that is the role model of all progressives, is compared to the UK, whose state sector is the same…
People of the World Unite!
byAs a liberal free trade internationalist and speaking personally, I have always been suspicious of the state paraphernalia that goes with increasingly endless attempts…
Razeen Sally, “Trade Policy, New Century”
byRazeen Sally’s Trade Policy, New Century (PDF) succeeds magnificently in explaining the 21st-century case for free trade and, specifically, unilateral trade liberalisation to the…
Protectionism, Regulations and Globalization — ECIPE
byVia Protectionism, Regulations and Globalization — ECIPE: Economic history tells us many lessons. One particular lesson of contemporary relevance is that the internationalization of…