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• A globalized reading list | Mad About Trade

  If you are looking for a good book on globalization and trade, an excellent source of ideas is the book review section of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. The site features excerpts and...

• Learning from Trade Wars Past | Mad About Trade

  Learning from Past Trade Wars David Rockefeller, the former chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank, makes a compelling historical case in today’s New York Times for pursing free trade policies. Rock...

• Another reviewer is “Mad about Trade” | Mad About Trade

  My Cato book Mad about Trade was favorably reviewed in a recent edition of the ASEAN Economic Bulletin. The reviewer Ren Yu Ku concluded that Griswold makes a persuasive case in favour of free trade a...

• DREAM Act a Low-Risk, High-Return Option | Mad About Trade

  In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need to consider bills such as the DREAM Act, narrowly approved by the House last evening and on tap for a vote in the Senate as early as today. The Development, Relief...

• Is the U.S. “the most open market in the world”? Not even close | Mad About Trade

  Accompanying the president on his trip to China this week, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk couldn’t resist repeating the old line that the United States is “the most open market in the world.” The ...

• What’s Wrong with Imported Oil? | Mad About Trade

  In a speech today at Georgetown University, President Obama called for a goal of cutting America’s oil imports by one-third within a decade. Like all efforts to wean Americans from big, bad imports, s...