This year’s political campaign has forced the economics profession to reconsider the fraying orthodoxy of free trade. [Stan Sorscher| May 5, 2016 |Huffington Post] Last week, Martin Khor documented the shift in thinking by several economists. In particular, the new NAFTA-style trade deal – the Trans-Pacific Partnership, is in deep trouble. Khor makes the key economic…

Like most modern trade deals, TTIP has less to do with tariffs than with so-called “non-tariff trade barriers,” a euphemism for ordinary health, safety, environmental, and financial regulations that corporations want to weaken both at home and abroad. In democratic societies, the people usually decide the balance between protecting the public and satisfying commerce. But…