Marc-William Palen is a historian at the University of Exeter and the author of The “Conspiracy” of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation, 1846–1896.
"""Free trade doctrine was once a mainstay of the political left, according to this probing history. . . . [The book is] a revealing analysis of how potent, disruptive, and even revolutionary the concept of economic freedom has been."" * Publishers Weekly *"