For decades, the liberal belief that open trade fosters peace has shaped US foreign policy. It worked while US security ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover globalization and international economic policy. Blaming “free trade” as the root cause of domestic social ills makes it ...

Globalization has produced radically different results for the United States than the widely shared prosperity its advocates promised. Jobs and production shifted abroad, leaving behind a weakened ...

India-UK Free Trade Agreement: India and the UK on Thursday (July 24) inked a landmark free trade agreement (FTA) that will significantly improve market access and will boost bilateral trade by around ...

One area in which economists typically speak with one voice is international trade. They have been staunch advocates of free trade dating back to Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Throughout the post-war ...

Globalization’s first age some 200 years ago sheds light on today’s turn toward economic nationalism The “first age” of globalization was beset by contradictions. In the 60 years or so before World ...

After decades of shouting into the void that free trade is good, those of us in the "eliminate tariffs, embrace comparative advantage, and let me buy my haggis-flavored chips online without an import ...

A strange thing is happening on the right. A powerful and influential faction of the Republican Party wants goods to be more expensive, economic growth to be constrained and men and women back in ...