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An Essay on the Influence of a low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock: shewing the Inexpediency of Restrictions on
Importation: With Remarks on Mr Malthus' Two Last Publications, by David Ricardo, 1815
"The principles which regulate rent are briefly stated ... The consideration of those principles, together with those which regulate the profit of stock, have convinced me of the policy of leaving the importation of corn unrestricted by law." |
| Bush as Fake Free-Trader, by Sheldon Richman, 28 Nov 2003 |
Economic Nationalism, Enemy of the People, by Sheldon Richman, 17 Nov 2006
"... under free trade in a global economy people have to adjust to changing conditions. What's the alternative? Government policies to freeze the status quo in place? If that thinking had prevailed earlier, some of us would be poor farmers and blacksmiths today; the rest would not have been born. Moreover, disruptive change is not something only foreigners can cause." |
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Examining Reagan’s Record on Free Trade, by Sheldon Richman, The Wall Street Journal, 10 May 1982
Related Topic: Ronald W. Reagan
"Mr. Reagan wants to be known as a free-trader. Indeed, he lists as heroes some of history’s foremost free-traders: Frederic Bastiat, Richard Cobden, Ludwig von Mises and F. A. Hayek, all of whom would find import quotas odious. ... How ironic that Mr. Reagan, admirer of free-traders, has yet to discover the senseless self-deprivation of protectionism and the imperative of immediate elimination of U.S. trade barriers." |
Farm Subsidies Must Go, by Sheldon Richman, 30 Apr 2004
Related Topic: Brazil |
| Free Trade With All Nations, by Richard Cobden, 15 Jan 1846 |
| Free Trade or Protectionism?, by Vincent H. Miller, 1988 |
Henry George and the Tariff Question, by Karen DeCoster, Mises.org Daily Article, 19 Apr 2006
Related Topic: Henry George
"George holds up free trade as the natural condition. That is, men, when unaffected by artificial restraints, instinctively engage in free exchange whereas protection is a fabrication of mankind, and therefore is not native to our state of being. ... The protective tariff is popular due to the misconceptions that surround its potential for accruing benefits to the populace." |
Is Free Trade Obsolete? Part 1, by Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily, Apr 2004
Related Topics: Law of Comparative Advantage, Paul Craig Roberts
"... trade makes them both better off .... The people of a country will not find it to their interest to make everything they want, because to do so they would have to divert resources from activities in which they have a greater advantage." |
Is Free Trade Obsolete? Part 2, by Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily, May 2004
Related Topics: Law of Comparative Advantage, Paul Craig Roberts
"Americans now face new competition in lines of work that were formerly sheltered ... by foreign tyranny. ... Americans can ... arrogantly claim that high-tech jobs belong to Americans, and lobby for protectionism ... Or they can lobby for an end to the mixed economy that holds down investment and wealth creation." |
Tear Down the Trade Walls, by Sheldon Richman, 22 Apr 2005
Related Topic: Ukraine
"When cheap steel comes in from foreign countries, it may cost American steel makers business, but it helps American steel users, such as the auto makers, to be more competitive. Conversely, a trade barrier that reduces foreign sales reduces the number of dollars foreigners have with which to buy American products." |
| The Case for Free Trade, by Milton Friedman, Hoover Digest, 1997 |
The Reagan Record On Trade: Rhetoric Vs. Reality, by Sheldon Richman, Cato Policy Analysis No. 107, 30 May 1988
Related Topic: Ronald W. Reagan
"People tend to be implicit free traders and explicit protectionists. When they shop, they buy what best satisfies them in quality and price without regard to national origin ... But when people talk about world trade, they become protectionists ... A president truly committed to free trade would have exerted his influence to show why the implicit free traders are right and the explicit protectionists are wrong." |
| Trade Restrictions Show Hypocrisy, by Sheldon Richman, 12 Sep 2003 |
| We Need Real Free Trade Now, by Sheldon Richman, 4 Feb 2004 |
Mexico's Advanced Auction on Stolen Goods, by Christopher Westley, Mises.org Daily Article, 10 Jul 2006
Related Topics: Mexico, Voting
"With free trade, such resentment would not exist today. But the fact is that for many countries, trade with the United States requires IMF and World Bank loans and comes with strings that reward politically well-connected industries. Indeed, if trade were truly free, it wouldn't require trade treaties (such as NAFTA and CAFTA) with tens of thousands of pages ..." |
Richard Cobden's Triumphant Crusade for Free Trade and Peace, by Jim Powell, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Jun 1995
Related Topics: Richard Cobden |
Substance, not style, by Daniel Koffler, 9 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama, Health Care
Contrasts several of Obama's issue positions with those of Hillary Clinton and argues his approach could be called left-libertarianism
"At the moment, Obama's and Clinton's positions on trade are roughly equivalent - both deserve credit for taking initial steps toward dismantling the obscene US government-supported agricultural cartels - but the present dynamic is Obama moving more and more in the direction of economic freedom, competition and individual choice ..." |
Teaching Basic Economics to Fifth Graders, by Arthur E. Foulkes, Mises.org Daily Article, 21 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Economics, Children, Money, Prices
"... they seemed to clearly understand that exchange involves giving up something you value less for something you value more and finding someone else with opposite valuations. ... This allowed us to discuss the idea of a 'fair' trade — which I defined as a trade where both parties voluntarily take part." |
Thomas Paine on Commerce, by Gary M. Galles, Mises.org Daily Article, 16 May 2003
Related Topics: Thomas Paine
"The principle of free trade is simply that of the freedom to choose for yourself who you will associate with in productive ways, and how you will arrange those associations, without artificial government restrictions to limit those choices. That principle is an essential, inalienable part of having ownership of oneself." |
| Books |
The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration
by Jacob G. Hornberger (Editor), Richard M. Ebeling (Editor), The Future of Freedom Foundation, 1995 |
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