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Book Reviews Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton. 2005. Fair Trade For All: How Trade Can Promote Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 315, Hb, £16. The foundational assumption of this book is that farmers and traders in developing countries who are given freer access to international markets beneï¬t materially. However the authors also recognise that none of the developed industrial nations achieved their present state of material advancement by granting unfettered access to their markets to foreign producers. Indeed quite the opposite is the case. Britain defended its relatively unsophisticated domestic textile producers from the much higher quality textiles from India in the nineteenth century by imposing tariffs on Indian produced cotton not only in the British market but also in India. In this book Stiglitz and Charlton argue that the present regime of tariffs and agricultural subsidies, dominated as it is still by the interests of the former colonial powers, needs to change. Through micro and macro economic analysis they argue the case that liberalisation of world trade, and the removal of the existing and inbuilt biases towards the developed world, will ultimately be beneï¬cial both to developed and developing countries. However they also recognise that
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