[lbo-talk] Free trade costs thousands of jobs...

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Wed Aug 6 09:12:30 PDT 2003


Doug wrote:

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>> How about those nineteenth century lovers of free trade, the USA?

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> Which had a large internal market, chronic labor shortages, and high

> wages, so domestic demand wasn't much of a problem.

and the fiercely protective tariff of abominations of 1828, and the yet more protective Merrill tariff of 1861 that was not significantly modified until the 1890s.

john mage



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