Abstract: What is commonly presented to the American people as "Free Trade" is not truly "Free", and does not benefit the American people.
Keywords: book review, current_events, economics, international, free trade, managed trade, tariffs, NAFTA, GATT, general agreement on trade and tariffs, North American free trade agreement, foreign economic international relations, United States.

Title: The Myth of Free Trade: The Pooring of America : Competition and the Myth of Free Trade
Author: Dr. Ravi Batra, Raveendra N. Batra
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Date Published: April 1996
ISBN: 0684833557
LOCN: HF1455.B328 1994
Dewey: 382/.71/0973 20
Pages: 274
Footnotes: 180 entries
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CONTENTS

Introduction: America at a Crossroads

Chapter 1: In Search of a Culprit

Chapter 2: The Shattered Dream

Chapter 3: Free Trade: The Real Culprit

Chapter 4: Roots of the Free Trade Fiasco

Chapter 5: Productivity Growth: Is There Really a Serious Problem?

Chapter 6: Global Experience with Free Trade

Chapter 7: America's Experience with Tariffs

Chapter 8: The Fallacy of Free Trade

Chapter 9: Competitive Protectionism

Chapter 10: A Five-Year Plan for Economic Revival

Chapter 11: International Trade and the Environment

Chapter 12: A Proper Theory of Economic Development and Trade

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