Readings in Free Trade

This collection of classical texts about (or rather, in favour of) free trade starts with a poem by the German writer and satirist Kurt Tucholsky, and ends with an article by the Peruvian novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa. Poets and writers in favour of free trade? This may seem strange to most people. Economics, the 'dismal science', is generally seen as the embodiment of cold, calculating rationalism and rarely as the object of poetic inspiration. In fact, many who oppose globalisation today are from the ranks of writers and poets. It is, therefore, important to recall that this was not always the case, nor that it should be today.


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