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Dec 5, 2018 · Free trade is the unrestricted importing and exporting of goods and services between countries. The opposite of free trade is protectionism—a highly-restrictive trade policy intended to eliminate competition from other countries.
- Robert Longley
May 6, 2016 · The OECD defines a free trade area as a group of “countries within which tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers between the members are generally abolished but with no common trade policy toward non-members”.
Aug 8, 2023 · This issue of Open Anthropology features anthropologists who build on anthropology’s rich tradition studying trade and exchange. We include 15 articles with an extraordinary geographical range—from free-trade zones in the Americas to financial speculation in Spain to markets in Africa to food-trade from Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Aug 28, 2024 · A free trade area is an agreement formed by a group of like-minded countries that agree to reduce trade barriers, such as tariffs and quotas, among others.
This paper reviews recent research on geography and trade. One of the key empirical findings over the last decade has been the role of geography in shaping the distribu-tional consequences of trade. One of the major theoretical advances has been the development of quantitative spatial models that incorporate both exogenous first-
Dec 9, 2019 · Trade has been a long-standing concern for anthropologists. The December 2019 issue of Open Anthropology makes free-to-read 15 articles on trade & exchange.
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Apr 29, 2021 · There are three aspects of the empirical literature that make it highly problematic for making reliable policy inferences: (a) the criteria used to define the notion of ‘free trade’, (b) the background assumptions embedded in the econometric techniques used for estimating causal effects, and (c) the widespread desire among academic economists to...