Free trade: yay or not? (Review of Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why) http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=6832
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I don't see the connection. The history of US trade seems more clear cut. There's a record of tariffs and statements about them.
Point is not about US history, but arguing from case studies of history to infer that protectionism is or is not bad.
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That wasn't the main point of the essay, as I saw it. The main point was that it was widely thought of as good by US elites b4 mid-20th C.
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That, in and of itself, doesn't mean it's a good policy now, but Fletcher's point there was that many today are ignorant of the history.
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And he's right about that. I recall an op/ed column in the
@FT last year criticizing Trump that asked what Lincoln would think of his views. -
The writer assumed that because Lincoln is a revered Republican, and Republican elites today believe X, Lincoln did too.
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I don't care in particular about US history because I'm not American.
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That's fine. I was just pointing out that his essay doesn't fit the fake history category, because it's main goal wasn't to justify anything
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but to point out that the elite consensus on the issue had changed over time, and many today are ignorant of that.
End of conversation
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