Protectionism and Free Trade

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Germinal G. Van

Protectionism is often most damaging when it prevents entrepreneurs from accessing products and services that would have increased domestic capital and worker productivity. The result is poorer workers and less productive domestic industry.

Brice M. Vanhaelen

EU membership is a sort of bait-and-switch for states that were sold on membership as an opportunity to join a free trade bloc and a chance to participate in a more cooperative Europe.

Gary Galles

Richard Cobden today is an underappreciated hero of peace and freedom in trade, and he fought the power of the state at every turn.

Tyler Curtis

Trade controls and immigration quotas are just more government regulation. And that won't help revive the economy.

Mihai Macovei

France faces a future of spiraling debt and declining economic growth. So Emmanuel Macron has now embraced economic nationalism as a way out. It's not likely to work.

András Tóth

It is thanks to global trade that we now have access to many more resources for treatment and prevention of disease, including COVID-19.