Protectionism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-09

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00:01:30 1 Protectionist policies
00:08:25 2 History
00:11:52 2.1 In the United States
00:15:01 2.2 In Europe
00:19:22 2.3 In Canada
00:20:21 2.4 In Latin America
00:20:44 3 Impact
00:22:01 3.1 Living standards
00:23:32 3.2 Growth
00:26:58 3.3 Developing world
00:30:17 3.4 Conflict
00:31:09 4 Current world trends



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Protectionism is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations. Proponents claim that protectionist policies shield the producers, businesses, and workers of the import-competing sector in the country from foreign competitors. However, they also reduce trade and adversely affect consumers in general (by raising the cost of imported goods), and harm the producers and workers in export sectors, both in the country implementing protectionist policies, and in the countries protected against.
There is a consensus among economists that protectionism has a negative effect on economic growth and economic welfare, while free trade, deregulation, and the reduction of trade barriers has a positive effect on economic growth. In fact protectionism has been implicated by some scholars as the cause of some economic crises, in particular the Great Depression. However, trade liberalization can sometimes result in large and unequally distributed losses and gains, and can, in the short run, cause significant economic dislocation of workers in import-competing sectors.