What are the main advantages and disadvantages of global free trade? Does it exist in practice?

Essay from the year 2001 in the subject Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: ECTS-grade: B = 2, University of Leeds (Institute for Politics and International Studies), course: North-south Linkages, language: English, abstract: The posed question comprises three different issues which have to be investigated. The first thing, implied in this question is, whether or not there...