To quote from the article:

In 1999, Britain’s 'top academic economists' polled heavily in favour of the UK joining the eurozone.

At the University of California, Berkeley, economist Andy Rose published an article claiming countries that adopted the euro would exponentially increase their trade with each other, which would make them all more prosperous.

In 2015, after an important study had established that the euro produced no trade gains, Andy Rose published a mea culpa. He acknowledged that his earlier analysis improperly extrapolated from the experience of smaller monetary unions of mainly poorer countries, and did not apply to the eurozone. By then, the grim costs of the extended eurozone crisis were evident. The euro created no obvious benefits but carried all-too-real risks.

True, unlike the euro, open borders generate recognisable trade benefits. But the benefits are overstated, and the adverse distributional consequences are too often swept under the rug.

By much the same logic as Krugman used in his recent tweets, the Harvard economist Dani Rodrik explains that economic welfare changes only modestly when countries with extensive trade relationships increase or decrease the extent of their international trade.

Rodrik, therefore, tenaciously highlights the troubling fact that contemporary trade agreements disproportionately help the most successful.

“Trade agreements,” he writes, “are driven overwhelmingly by a business-led agenda. The implicit economic model is one of trickle-down: make investors happy and the benefits will eventually flow down to the rest of society. The interests of labor—good pay, high labor standards, employment security, voice in the workplace, bargaining rights—get little lip service.”

The EU is the world’s most advanced form of “trade agreement” and, hence, comes with all the ills that Rodrik underscores. Well-heeled lobbyists representing business interests influence nearly 75 per cent of EU laws.

Hey Steely....looks like you found why Richard B supports Remain.

Here we tolerate anybody... Except Gusset.

That's what I like about this site. We are kind to the loons.
We know that if it was on the other site, they would not reciprocate. They would be yelling ban him, stone him, burn the witch.

You cannot offer a dissenting opinion to the lunatic left/Remain/liberal/ minority alliance on the BBS or else you get banned in 24 hours. A place run by dickheads for dickheads.

Here we tolerate anybody... Except Gusset.

“Trade agreements,” he writes, “are driven overwhelmingly by a business-led agenda

There we are and unlike you I actually read posters before replying to them.

So can leave please show what trade agreements are in place for when we leave the EU in 100 days time.

Just tell us please.....

If you know of any, please inform Michael Fallon Tory MP for Sevenoaks, who says that there aren't any and that is the reason he cannot support the idea going forward.

Funty sets em up, I knock them down