Ask the Protectionist
Posted By Don Boudreaux On January 25, 2011 @ 2:10 pm In Trade | Comments Disabled
Protectionists are out in e-droves today! My e-mail box is full of too many missives to reply to individually. (I suspect that I should thank Ian Fletcher for bringing notice of my support for free trade to the attention of readers of the Huffington Post [1]. Judging from some – although certainly not all – of their e-mails, many of these persons seem never before to have encountered any arguments for free trade beyond [1] the mistaken one that free trade increases the overall number of jobs in the domestic economy, and [2] the nutty one that free trade is a policy pushed by oligarchs to enable multinational corporations to dominate the world and enslave the masses.)
Anyway, as these – what shall we call them? Huffers? – apparently come to the Cafe to find free-trade arguments that they enjoy attacking, I here offer a link to my April 25, 2009, column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review entitled “Ask the Protectionist. [2]”
There are other questions that I will likely will soon add to the list of questions for protectionists that I pose in that column.
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[1] Ian Fletcher for bringing notice of my support for free trade to the attention of readers of the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-fletcher/libertarianism-the-new-an_b_811271.html
[2] Ask the Protectionist.: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/boudreaux/s_622201.html
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