We provide historical description of the transfer of one particular idea into reality: the insight of economic science about trade relations among nations and its implementation into policy. The record of the free trade story may serve as an illustration of how difficult it is for an idea to...

In Dec. 2008/Jan. 2009 I conducted a web-based survey of economists in my native country of the Czech Republic, and received 182 responses (a response rate of over 25 percent). The survey included 21 policy questions, each anchored in the status quo and soliciting judgment on whether policy...