… is from page 124 of Columbia University economics professor Arvind Panagariya’s excellent forthcoming book, Free Trade and Prosperity; the free-trade critics who Panagariya singles out for this criticism are Ha-Joon Chang and Dani Rodrik:
When it comes to causation, free trade critics have offered absolutely nothing: they have conducted no econometric analysis worth its salt showing that high and rising barriers to trade lead to faster growth.


When it comes to causation, free trade critics have offered absolutely nothing: they have conducted no econometric analysis worth its salt showing that high and rising barriers to trade lead to faster growth.
