I. Engines of globalization. 1. A second surge of globalization. [Key Facts About Globalization; its Main Forms; and Outline of Book.] 1.1. The First Wave. 1.2. The Second Wave. 1.3. Crisis, Peak Oil -- and De-Globalization? 1.4. The Forces at Work. 2. Should Nigeria strive for food self-sufficiency? [The Ricardian Model, and Comparative Advantage as a Reason for Trade.] 2.1. A Presidential Agenda. 2.2. The Comparative Advantage Argument Formalized: Introducing the Ricardian Model. 2.3. Autarky in the Ricardian Model. 2.4. Free Trade in the Ricardian Model. 2.5. So what actually happened? 2.6. Additional insights from Ricardo's model. 2.7. Main ideas. 3. Why do Americans get their Impalas from Canada? [Increasing Returns to Scale as a Reason for Trade.] 3.1. Impalas on the horizon. 3.2. Increasing returns more generally. 3.3. How to tackle Europe: Trade vs. FDI. 3.4. On a smaller scale: Trade and increasing returns in furniture. 3.5 Adding Heterogeneity: The Melitz Effect. 3.6. Main ideas. 4. Kodak and Fuji: Is world trade rigged in favor of large corporations? [Oligopoly as a Reason for Trade.] 4.1. Big Players in the Game of Trade. 4.2. Background on Kodak, Fuji, and the War. 4.3. Introducing Oligopoly. 4.4. Autarky. 4.5. Trade. 4.6. Winners and Losers. 4.7. Some other possibilities. 4.8. Main ideas. II. Politics and policy in the world economy. 5. Why did the North want a tariff, and why did the South call it an abomination? [Specific Factors and the Effects of Trade (with preliminary look at Tariffs).] 5.1. A Cold War Before the Hot War. 5.2. A Pure Specific-Factors Model. 5.3. The Tariff. 5.4. A Constitutional Error, and the Lerner Symmetry Theorem. 5.5. A Mixed Model. 5.6. Main ideas. 6. Is free trade a rip-off for American workers? [The Heckscher-Ohlin Model.] 6.1. The Charges. 6.2. The Model with Fixed Coefficients. 6.3. Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium. 6.4. Trade and the Distribution of Income. 6.5. Allowing substitutability -- and the tell-tale signs. 6.6. Testing the Theory. 6.7. Main ideas. 7. Why doesn't our government want us to import sugar? [Trade policy in comparative-advantage models; tariffs, quotas, and VER's.] 7.1. Sinking LifeSavers. 7.2. Hypothesis I: The terms-of-trade motive. 7.2.1. A Partial-equilibrium Model. 7.2.2. The Effects of a Tariff. 7.2.3. The Effects of a Quota. 7.2.4. Evaluation: Is the Terms-of-Trade Motive Sufficient? 7.3. Hypothesis II: Interest Groups. 7.4. Additional Observations. 7.4.1.The Optimal Tariff. 7.4.2. The Optimal Tariff for a Small Country is Zero. 7.4.3. Voluntary Export Restraints. 7.4.4. Equivalence of Tariffs and Quotas (and How It Can Break Down). 7.4.5. Non-optimality of Export Subsidies. 7.4.6. The Argument in General Equilibrium. 7.4.7. The Effective Rate of Protection. 7.5. Main Ideas. 8. Who Are the WTO, and What Do They Have Against Dolphins? 8.1. The Dolphin Fiasco, and Other Stories. 8.2. The need for trade policy coordination: The trade war problem and the role of the WTO. 8.3. But In an Interconnected World, All Policies are Trade Policies. 8.4. The Sham Problem. 8.5. The WTO's wobbly tightrope walk. 8.6. Main ideas. 9. Should Third-World Governments use tariffs to jump-start growth? [Infant-industry protection, ISI, and economic development.] 9.1. A Silver Bullet? 9.2. The Infant-Industry Argument: Background. 9.3. Learning by Doing: An Insufficient Argument. 9.4. Market-failure Arguments for Infant-Industry Protection. 9.4.1. Credit-market Failures. 9.4.2. Learning Spillovers. 9.4.3. Agglomeration Externalities and Trade. 9.5. What Has Actually Happened? 9.6. Main ideas. 10. Did Ronald Reagan get punked by Japanese automakers? [Strategic trade policy; tariffs, quotas and VER's with oligopoly.] 10.1. A Paradox of Aggressive Trade Policy. 10.2.A First Attempt: A Competitive Model. 10.3. Does a Cournot Interpretation Work? 10.4. Trying on