fantasy and political organization

[Ian Murray]

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> >Free trade is now our preferred form of protectionism Yoshie;
> >nothing's changed....yet......
> >
> >Ian
>
> You mean the imposition of free trade on poor nations, lest any will
> possibly develop manufacturing capacity in a fashion that rich
> nations have.  Rich nations, however, continue to exercise
> old-fashioned protectionism against poor ones:


> Poor nations are allowed neither to go socialist nor to exercise
> protectionism.  On top of that, rich nations continue to subsidize
> their agriculture & fail to give market access to poor ones.  All
> that in addition to protectionism exercised through the enforcement
> of intellectual property.
>
> Yoshie
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We have a winner Bob! :-) It's why I've been calling free trade the
economist's equivalent of  phlogiston.

Ian