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Do people really think a self-imposed embargo (protectionism) is good for people? Why?

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  • Rick
    Lv 5
    3 years ago
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    All it ever leads to is war.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    We don't need jobs. So 20th century.

  • 3 years ago

    Because free trade has been proven bot to work. Most likely because the economic assumptions necessary for free trade to work are never true in real life.

    Labor is never perfectly mobile across borders, and capital is never perfectly immobile across borders.

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