Mises Daily
Author:
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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[This article, originally titled “Reciprocity,” is excerpted from The Bastiat Collection (2011); it appeared in Economic Sophisms (1845).] We have just seen that whatever increases the expense of conveying commodities from one country to another — in other words, whatever renders transport more onerous — acts in the same way as a protective