Going Alone: The Case for Relaxed Reciprocity in Freeing Trade
本书探讨一国单方面降低贸易壁垒的经济与政治逻辑，分析单边自由化与互惠条件的利弊，适合研究贸易政策与国际经济关系的学者参考。
This book is about the economics and politics of trade liberalisation. ‘Going alone’ refers to unilateral liberalisation, when one country reduces its trade barriers unconditionally and independent of what any other does. The contrast, which is also studied explicitly, is reciprocity in which a country's trade liberalisation is conditional on another's or with some other quid pro quo such as a loan from the World Bank. Bhagwati's introduction defines three propositions on the economics of trade liberalisation: liberalise alone if you have to; if others also liberalise, so much the better; maybe a unilateral liberalisation will beget subsequent liberalisations by others. It also identifies three important factors in the political economy of liberalisation – ideas, interests and institutions. As we might expect, these propositions and factors are recurring themes in subsequent chapters, which provide historical accounts, country studies and sectoral studies. Collectively they illustrate that unilateralism and reciprocity are complex and often subtle issues.