Debates over world trade often conflate two distinct issues. The first is how to expand the efficiencies that occur when international trade is broadly balanced and countries are able to benefit from ...

Mr. Irwin, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, worked on trade policy while on the staff of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers. During the first game of this year’s World ...

In his 1948 memoirs, Cordell Hull wrote that during his 12 years as US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secretary of state he was guided by the idea that “unhampered trade dovetailed with peace.” ...