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Trade is all the rage these days. Or, at least, raging about trade is. Today, we unpack what trade and free trade are, and how to talk about it. We also address the abundance of lawyers in trade policy. 

Douglas Irwin is a professor of economics at Dartmouth College and the author of several books including Clashing Over Commerce and Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade.


Want to explore more?

• Douglas Irwin, International Trade Agreements, in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
• Samuel Gregg on National Security and Industrial Policy, a Great Antidote podcast.
• Why Industrial Policy is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea (with Scott Sumner), an EconTalk podcast.
• Colin Grabow on the Jones Act 2: Treason and Cruises, a Great Antidote podcast.
• Jon Murphy, Does National Security Justify Tariffs? at Econlib

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