Free Trade or Protectionism: Issue of Strategic Choice

... Countries Stay Poor ” published in 2011. His conclusions in the book are based predominantly on empirical observations of some countries over different periods of time, which led him to argue that at the current stage of economic development, free trade policies are not efficient and work against the interests of less developed countries. 2 . Friedrich List. The National System of Political Economy. Translated from German (into Russian), ed. by K.V. Trubnikov, with his introduction, notes and a biography of F. List. St. Petersburg, 1891, pp. 452+хх. 2nd abridged edition, 2005. Moscow: Europe , 2005. 3 . Erik S. Reinert. How Rich Countries Got Rich … and Why Poor Countries ...