Effective for whom professor? Not the people whose job are being shipped to the 3rd world, I can say. As for cheaper goods what good 30 % more for your money if you are making 50% or less of what you once did before they shipped your job overseas? Free



Trade might and I can't judge, help the difference between nations. But in the developed nations it is creating 2 classes the upper 10% of yuppies, the rich and the connected and the rest who are abandoned with no hope future and no chance for them or their kids!



Bluntly wasn't elected to improve poverty in the 3rd world, I don't object to it, I even think it is a good thing. My government was elected to PRIMARILY to see to the good of it voting class. And shipping our jobs to the 3rd world is NOT in the interests of the citizens the were ELECTED to represent. Thus Trump, Brexit, and the rise of radical right and left. Your wonderful "Free Trade" is DESTROYING Democracy in the developed world and the winners of this globalizing sodomizing are cheering this destruction on. And the winners are calling for more, more, more, never mind the damage it has done to your own people!



As for governments helping the Losers of Free trade deals with anything. You must be one of the only people not to know the government doesn't help the losers with a single thing!!!! The governments reaction is Too bad, So Sad, don't let the doorknob hit you on the way out. Any talk of redistribution is so much Bovine Fecal Matter Mr. Lomborg and you know it.



Nothing and I mean NOTHING has been or will be done for the losers. Thus the rise of the radicals on both sides of the at least they "claim" they will help the losers. The Mainstream parties don't care. And unless this changes protectionism NO MATTER what the experts say is inevitable. For in the developed world the losers out number the winner's substantially. And the number of losers is only growing,