New at Reason: John Stossel on Why Everyone Prospers With Free Trade

April 29, 2010

Trade is win-win. Two people trade only because each values what he gets more than what he gives up. That's why in a store both customer and clerk say, "Thank you." And as John Stossel writes, the same thing is true at the international level, where trade allows countries to specialize in what they do well and trade the extra for things they don't make as well. When free trade is unmolested, Stossel writes, the world is richer and has more choices.

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