by Mark Thoma, University of Oregon (Department of Economics)

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Trade Policy and Moral Leadership

Posted on August 05, 2008

David Warsh says that if the US wants to reestablish itself as a world leader in trade policy, it must regain its traditional leadership in human rights. That means the next president must acknowledge the grim, incontrovertible truth that US officials committed what a dispassionate jury would recognize as a series of serious crimes under American law in the years after 2001:On the Significance of Geneva, by David Warsh: It s August. Is anyone surprised that trade talks in Geneva collapsed last week... As the Financial Times put it, ...the annual breakdown of the Doha round of trade t...

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