# Profs Ralph Gomory and William Baumol's research on free trade is featured

1 Faculty News July 14, 2013 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2013/07/14/whats-an-economy-for-top-economists-novel-answer-you/) -- "In 2000 he partnered \[with\] the noted economist [William Baumol](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/william-baumol) in Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests, a book that explodes the myth that nations always benefit from free trade. In a debate where most anti-trade arguments don’t pass even elementary tests of economic literacy, [Gomory](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/ralph-gomory) marshaled higher mathematics to confound economic orthodoxy."

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