Narlikar on Fair Trade and Free Trade

Amrita Narlikar of the University of Cambridge talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about fair trade and policy issues related to trade. Narlikar argues--based on a recent article with Dan Kim--that the Fair Trade movement hurts workers outside of the fair trade umbrella and does little for those it is trying to help. She advocates free trade, particularly the elimination of agricultural subsidies in the developed world and the best way to help workers in poor nations. Drawing on a recent article with Jagdish Bhagwati, she criticizes the international response to recent deaths in Bangladesh factories. In the last part of the conversation, she defends the World Trade Organization.

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Narlikar on Fair Trade and Free Trade is an episode from EconTalk at GMU by Library of Economics and Liberty.

This episode is 1:01:21 long.

This episode was published on Jul 29, 2013.

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