Dean Baker’s Free Trade Problem

May 20th, 2008 by Peter Suderman

Dean Baker thinks we shouldn’t bother with free trade because it’s not really free trade — it only affects low-income workers, right? — and because IP rights for things like pharmaceuticals are a Big Bad Conspiracy to keep poor people sick.  Too bad that, as Megan McArdle points out, this is pretty much nonsense.

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