Economist Steven Landsburg argues: Bullying and protectionism have a lot in common. They both use force (either directly or through the power of the law) to enrich someone else at your involuntary expense. If you’re forced to pay $20 an hour to an American for goods you could have

For those interested in the methodology of law and economics as applied to international law, it might be worth checking the latest issue of the Illinois Law Review, for a series of papers using and commenting on this method.

The Jan 10 FT explains that the chair of the large toy company, Hasbro, is calling for global regulatory standards for toys: The US, EU and other jurisdictions enforce unique safety regimes that can force toy companies and their suppliers, most of whom are based in China, to adopt different

The recent arbitration of the SCOO available for Antigua to use against the United States in the Gambling case featured some important developments  (WT/DS285/ARB, 12/21/07). Perhaps the most interesting is the new standard employed by the arbitrator to determine the counterfactual that would be used to

According to Cars.com, two of the top 10 models are from Toyota.  They explain: Cars.com's American-Made Index highlights the cars that are built here, have the highest amount of domestic parts, and are bought in the largest numbers by Americans.