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The American Revolution Was a Free-Trade Revolution

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Ryan McMaken

The British complained of unfair competition from goods supplied by the American colonists. So the state intervened to manage trade and make it “fair.” But the American revolutionaries saw protectionism for the scam it was, and still is.

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