Protectionism Smashed (by Murray Rothbard)
Channel: Man Against The State
Date: 25/06/2017

Murray Rothbard eloquently smashes the economic doctrine that tariffs and quotas are good for the economy.  He explains that they are coerced special privileges granted to a few inefficient domestic producers, at the expense of the mass of consumers.

This was published as a monograph in 1986, and appeared as Chapter 89 "Protectionism and the Destruction of Prosperity" in the Rothbard collection "Making Economic Sense" (1995).

Article text: https://mises.org/library/smashing-protectionist-theory-again

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