Globalization and free trade

Protectionism is back on the agenda as the financial crisis deepens. With calls for measures that purport to protect low income workers growing louder in the West, it is essential that the economic arguments in favour of free trade and globalization are re-emphasised.Philip Booth and Richard Wellings have brought together key papers originally published by the Institute of Economic Affairs, which, for the past 50 years, has been vigorously defending the case for free trade, and for globalization more generally. These important papers, which are not widely available, trace the development of the debate on the benefits of free trade during the last 50 years. The editors have written an authoritative introduction which offers a comprehensive overview of the arguments for and against globalization.

Contents: Acknowledgements Foreword Deepak Lal Introduction Philip Booth and Richard Wellings 1. Harry G. Johnson (1969), 'On Demolishing Barriers to Trade' 2. David Greenaway and Christopher Milner (1979), 'Identifying The Protective Motive: A. "Electoral" Influences, and B. Intervention and Market Failure' 3. Deepak Lal ([1983] 1997), 'Introduction', 'The External Environment I: Trade' and 'The External Environment II: Commodities and Foreign Capital' 4. David Greenaway (1988), 'The Politics of Protection' 5. Charles Mensah (1991), 'Economic Freedom for Africa' 6. Jagdish Bhagwati (1995), 'Free Trade, "Fairness" and the New Protectionism' 7. Sir Alan Walters (1996), 'Does the World Need a World Bank?' 8. Fred L. Smith, Jr. (1996), 'Trade and the Environment: Where Are We Going?' 9. Paul Collier (1998), Living Down the Past: How Europe Can Help Africa Grow 10. David Henderson (1998), 'Part 2: The Uneasy Trend to Economic Liberalism' 11. Marcus Noland (1999), The New Protectionists: The Privatisation of US Trade Policy 12. Lord Harris of High Cross (2002), 'Adam Smith: Revolutionary for the Third Millennium' 13. Charles W. Calomiris (2002), A Globalist Manifesto for Public Policy: The Tenth Annual IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture 14. Forrest Capie (2002), Capital Controls: A "Cure" Worse than the Problem? 15. Deepak Lal (2003), 'In Defence of Empires' 16. Daniel T. Griswold (2003), 'Migration, Globalisation and the Spirit of Peter Bauer' 17. Andrew Ryder (2003), 'Anti-Globalisation: Bad Wine in New Bottles?' 18. David Henderson (2004), 'Globalisation, "Civil Society" and "Global Governance"' and 'Global Salvationism and Consensus Pressures' 19. Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr. and Sara F. Cooper (2005), 'International Trade and Global Stability' 20. E.J. Mishan (2005), 'Can Globalisation Depress Living Standards in the West?' 21. John Meadowcroft (2006), 'Free Trade, "Pauper Labour" and Prosperity: A Reply to Professor Mishan' 22. E.J. Mishan (2006), 'A Rejoinder to John Meadowcroft' 23. Krisztina Kis-Katos and Gunther G. Schulze (2005), 'Regulation of Child Labour' 24. Jasson Urbach (2007), 'Development Goes Wireless' 25. Eamonn Butler (2007), 'The Wealth of Nations', in Adam Smith: A Primer' 26. Philip Booth and Linda Whetstone (2007), 'Half a Cheer for Fair Trade' 27. Razeen Sally (2008), Trade Policy, New Century: The WTO, FTAs and Asia Rising Name Index