Statism Stands against Free Trade and Free Association

Tags Cronyism and CorporatismProtectionism and Free TradePhilosophy and Methodology

09/30/2023Karras LambertTate Fegley

Narrator:

Free trade has its enemies on the left and the right. However, despite the supposed “sophistication” of their antitrade arguments, when we break them down, those arguments really are sophistry.

Original Article: Statism Stands against Free Trade and Free Association

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Contact Karras Lambert

Karras J. Lambert is a PhD student in economics at George Mason University and a 2021 Mises Institute Summer Research Fellow. He previously earned a Masters degree in finance from Peking University HSBC Business School and a B.S. in economics from Drexel University. Karras specializes in economic theory in the tradition of Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises.

Contact Tate Fegley

Tate Fegley is a Fellow of the Mises Institute, Chair of Business and Economics at Montreat College, and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute.