> >Trade agreements are protectionist documents; it's simply a matter of who's protected from who. >Ian
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> This is America.
> Everyone is entitled to their own definitions.
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"'perceptual fault lines' run through apparently stable communities that appear to have agreed on basic institutions and structures and on general governing rules. Consent comes apart in battles of description. Consent comes apart over whose stories to tell." [Kim Scheppele in "Another Look at the Problem of Rent Seeking" by Steven Medema, JEI Vol xxv # 4]
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2002w31/msg00295.htm