Title: Fooling ourselves
Description: "This paper evaluates how much of the economics profession has evaluated the evidence on the relationship between international trade and economic growth.  The paper highlights the basic approaches to the trade and growth question that the literature has adopted.  The case is made that more attention needs to be paid to the mechanisms by which trade impacts growth and that future research should move away from a focus on outcomes and look instead at these mechanisms"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Subjects: Economic development, Globalization, International trade