The national security argument for protection is perfectly valid and sound. It is perfectly logical under these conditions that protectionism can improve the nation's welfare. However, because of the theory of the second-best, many economists remain opposed to the use of protectionism even in these...
They think they already own national security but don’t want to debate actually funding the military. And it should appeal to their populist instincts. Article content Protectionism is not about the ordinary person. It is about vested interests. Among nations it is fairly easy to portray as ...
Their argument for drawing together critical geopolitical scholarship with the analytical and theoretical tools of political ecology builds on prior work operating in this conceptual space; for instance, work in political geography of the environment (Benjaminsen et al., 2017, Sundberg, 2009, Vander...
Postwar trade politics in the USA have exhibited intermittent periods of rising industry demands for protection from imports. At present, however, we do not fully understand why industry demands for protection rise and fall overtime. We argue that intermittent protectionism in postwar USA has been d...
above, however, health and safety concerns are frequently used as a pretext for raw economic protectionism. Requiring courts to examine the justifications for licensing mandates — and not just take the legislature's word for it — would likely result in many harmful rules being struck ...
The General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements Agustin Carstens, lamenting “recent measures to reverse globalisation and to retreat to protectionism”, recently stated: “After decades of setting rules to liberalise trade, we are seeing moves to rip up that rulebook. After decades ...