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The Political Economy of Protectionism

Mises Wire

Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Online Publish Date: March 8, 2018

Disagreements among economists are legendary, but they are largely of one mind on the issue of free trade. Evidence of this is a recent survey of the current and past presidents of the American Economic Association—the voice of mainstream economics. The survey found these prominent economists all strongly in favor of free trade, and concluded that

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