ABSTRACT

In these heady days of ever increasing globalization it has become vital to question whether governments should be allowed to protect domestic enterprises from foreign competitors.This book represents a first attempt to provide a new conceptual basis for discussing the cases in which free trade should be the option of choice in trade policy and tho

chapter |7 pages

Prologue

A tale from days of olde with a sad ending

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART I Does neoclassical trade theory provide a justification for free trade?

chapter 2|22 pages

Special problems of neoclassical trade theory

The assumptions as prerequisites of the free trade postulate

chapter 4|2 pages

Summary of Part I

part |2 pages

PART II Do the functional conditions of the market order provide a justification for free trade?

part |2 pages

PART III The order of liberty

part |2 pages

PART IV International trade and trade policy in the order of liberty