Part I. The Philosophy, Politics and Ethics of Free Trade -- Chapter 1. Adam Smith’s Moral Sentiments, Society, and Free Trade (Vernon Smith ) -- Chapter 2. Reflections from the Inside Out: What Libertopia tell us about the Nature of Markets in Trade (Tim Evans) -- Chapter 3. The Foundations...

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...

The WTO has not been able to recover since the collapse of the Doha Round in July 2008. Several ministerial conferences including the Buenos Aires meeting in December 2017 failed to reach agreement. The US Trump Administration launched a campaign to reform the WTO in 2018 and 2019. This book...