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Prosperity: The Trade Policy Instrument

Dec 4, 2008

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in Africa, Economic Development, Economics, International Affairs, Poverty, Public Policy, Series: Cycle of Prosperity, Sociology

The final instrument for addressing the problems of the poorest nations, given in Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion, is trade policy. Collier acknowledges the complex ramifications of trade. He laments the good-intentioned but wrongheaded campaigns of many activist and Christian organizations who cast freer trade as a conspiracy of large corporations to take advantage of…

The Free-Trade Paradox

May 26, 2008

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mwkruse

in Capitalism and Markets, Economics, Public Policy

The New Yorker: The Free-Trade Paradox …The candidates are trying to win the favor of unions and blue-collar voters in states like Ohio and West Virginia, of course, but their positions also reflect a widespread belief that free trade with developing countries, and with China in particular, is a kind of scam perpetrated by the…

An economic virus

Mar 9, 2006

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mwkruse

in Capitalism and Markets, Globalization, Politics, Public Policy, Socialism

An economic virus is a great piece by Jonah Goldberg in the Los Angeles Times about protectionism. The beauty of the American free-trade consensus over the last few decades is that it split two outlooks that tend to go together: nationalism and socialism. In terms of economic policy, nationalism is indistinguishable from socialism. When you…

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Prosperity: The Trade Policy Instrument

The Free-Trade Paradox

An economic virus