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A note on the ethics of free trade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2005

DAVID PALMETER
DAVID PALMETER
Affiliation:
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP, Washington, DC
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Abstract

Arguments against free trade are often couched in ethical terms. They usually describe the plight of those who lose from free trade, but seldom consider the costs of protectionism. This essay examines free trade from the perspective of several important ethical theories and concludes that free trade is consistent with each of them.

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World Trade Review , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , November 2005 , pp. 449 - 467
Copyright
© 2005 David Palmeter

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Footnotes

I would like thank Farid Dhanji, Petros C. Mavroidis, Niall P. Meagher, Elizabeth Tanney-Palmeter, and two anonymous referees for helpful comments on an earlier draft.