Bonus Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 70 of Douglas Irwin’s vital 2017 history of U.S. trade policy, Clashing Over Commerce; Doug here is writing of the United States very soon after the Constitution was ratified:

Most Americans embraced the view that commerce was naturally beneficial and required no central direction, in part because they did not want to create an overly powerful national government that might play favorites with certain producers.