Cobden’s Pyrrhic Victory

VIEWSrnCobden's Pyrrhic Victoryrnbv Alfred E. EckesrnBill Clinton and Richard Cobdcn, a 19th-century Englishrnanti-Corn Law crusader, have more in common than consonantsrnin their surnames. As economic internationalists, bothrntrumpeted commerce as the panacea for attaining world peacernand prosperity. In their own ways, both bear responsibility forrnthe new international economic . . .