Andrew Leonard thinks that blog debates can be useful and describes what he believes is Dani Rodrik's contribution:
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/05/11/new_trade_deal/index.html?source=rss
Update: http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/05/helping_the_los.html#comments
An excerpt one of the comments by Mark Thoma :'Now we are hearing a consistent message - there are winners and losers but net benefits overall, and the size of the losses, which are different and larger than we anticipated, make it imperative that we compensate the losers if we expect to keep the global trading system alive."
