Trade and Peace

I remain puzzled by some recent statements questioning whether free trade promotes peace. When I read another one in the Boston Review, I thought I was going to have to go through all my old rebuttals again. The article starts off this way: To many today, the idea that free

I see a few people questioning the idea that trade promotes peace, and I'm not quite sure what to make of this. Here are two recent examples from ex-Twitter: * This is from Paul Krugman: "Not just strategic relations. People underestimate the role of geopolitical ideas in economic

This is a guest post from Michael Trebilcock, Emeritus University Professor of Law and Economics, University of Toronto An almost timeless debate going back to philosophers in Greek and Roman times surrounds the issue of whether increased economic interdependence between and among states in the form of cross-border trade and