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`The authors provide a useful and informative examination of the public choice view on trade policy.' -- Douglas A. Irwin, Journal of Economic History `This impressive treatise provides critical new insights into trade policies since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The authors carefully and systematically analyze the behavior of the major players in the formation of trade policies, namely, common interest groups in the private sector, the House and Senate, the President, and the government bureaucracy, in most of the major episodes of trade-policy change over these years and show how the outcomes can be best understood within a political economy framework. Their final conclusion that unilateral free trade should be imposed by amending the Constitution to prevent the government from levying import duties or imposing quantitative restrictions on trade should stimulate a fundamental rethinking of US trade policy.' -- Robert E. Baldwin, University of Wisconsin, US `The Locke Institute captured top honors for the third consecutive year with its nomination, Trade Protection in the United States. Authors Charles K. Rowley, Willem Thorbecke, and Richard E. Wagner make an incontrovertible case for free trade irrespective of the trade policies pursued by other countries.' -- Atlas Economic Research Foundation Highlights, Spring 1996 `. . . I find this book to be a worthwhile contribution to our understanding of the endogeneity of trade policy.' -- Howard J. Wall, The Economic Journal

'The authors provide a useful and informative examination of the public choice view on trade policy.' -- Douglas A. Irwin, Journal of Economic History 'This impressive treatise provides critical new insights into trade policies since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The authors carefully and systematically analyze the behavior of the major players in the formation of trade policies, namely, common interest groups in the private sector, the House and Senate, the President, and the government bureaucracy, in most of the major episodes of trade-policy change over these years and show how the outcomes can be best understood within a political economy framework. Their final conclusion that unilateral free trade should be imposed by amending the Constitution to prevent the government from levying import duties or imposing quantitative restrictions on trade should stimulate a fundamental rethinking of US trade policy.' -- Robert E. Baldwin, University of Wisconsin, US 'The Locke Institute captured top honors for the third consecutive year with its nomination, Trade Protection in the United States. Authors Charles K. Rowley, Willem Thorbecke, and Richard E. Wagner make an incontrovertible case for free trade irrespective of the trade policies pursued by other countries.' -- Atlas Economic Research Foundation Highlights, Spring 1996 '. . . I find this book to be a worthwhile contribution to our understanding of the endogeneity of trade policy.' -- Howard J. Wall, The Economic Journal

'The authors provide a useful and informative examination of the public choice view on trade policy.' -- Douglas A. Irwin, Journal of Economic History 'This impressive treatise provides critical new insights into trade policies since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The authors carefully and systematically analyze the behavior of the major players in the formation of trade policies, namely, common interest groups in the private sector, the House and Senate, the President, and the government bureaucracy, in most of the major episodes of trade-policy change over these years and show how the outcomes can be best understood within a political economy framework. Their final conclusion that unilateral free trade should be imposed by amending the Constitution to prevent the government from levying import duties or imposing quantitative restrictions on trade should stimulate a fundamental rethinking of US trade policy.' -- Robert E. Baldwin, University of Wisconsin, US 'The Locke Institute captured top honors for the third consecutive year with its nomination, Trade Protection in the United States. Authors Charles K. Rowley, Willem Thorbecke, and Richard E. Wagner make an incontrovertible case for free trade irrespective of the trade policies pursued by other countries.' -- Atlas Economic Research Foundation Highlights, Spring 1996 '... I find this book to be a worthwhile contribution to our understanding of the endogeneity of trade policy.' -- Howard J. Wall, The Economic Journal

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Tthe late Charles K. Rowley, former General Director, The Locke Institute, Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Director, Program in Economics, Politics and the Law, James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University, US, Willem Thorbecke, Professor of Economics, George Mason University and Research Associate, The Locke Institute, US and Richard E. Wagner, Emeritus Professor of Economics, George Mason University, US

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