Free Trade: Necessary Foundation for World Peace, ed. by Joan Kennedy
Taylor
(Irvington-On-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education, 1986). A
collection of essays showing the close relationship between free trade
and peace;
"where goods cannot cross borders, armies will."
Protection or Free Trade, by Henry George (1886; various editions).
Still one of the
best statements of the free trade position, with logical refutations of
protectionist
fallacies.
Endless Enemies, Jonathan Kwitny (New York: Congdon and Weed, 1984).
Shows
how foreign interventionism subverts the market and creates enemies for
Western
society.
The World Between the Wars, 1919-39: An Economist's View, by Joseph S.Davis
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975). The best economic
history of the
interwar period, both in America and on the international scene. Looks
at the
Depression, government's response, protectionism, and more. A crucially
important book.
A History of the World Economy: International Economic Relations Since
1850, by
James Foreman-Peck (Totowa, N.J.: Barnes and Noble, 1983). A history of
world
trade that shows the benefits of free trade.
The Fair Trade Fraud, by James Bovard (New York: St. Martin's Press,
1991). This
book presents a careful and very readable analysis and refutation of
myths about
international trade.
Tyranny Unmasked, by John Taylor (1822; reprint, Indianapolis: Liberty
Classics,
1992). A devastating attack on the protective tariff and mercantilist
policies in
particular, and on statism in general, by the foremost philosopher of the
Jeffersonian radicals of the early national period in American history.
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