This is the story of free trade in 19th century Britain, its contribution to the development of Britain's democratic culture, and the unravelling of the free tr

The balancing of competing interests and goals will have momentous consequences for Japan—and the United States—in their quest for economic growth, social h

Canada has always been a trading nation. From the early days of fur and fish to the present, when a remarkable 90 percent of the gross national product is attri

In the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly concerned with the roots of nationa

Arguments for protection and against free trade have seen a revival in developed countries such as the United States and Great Britain as well as developing cou