Protectionism or Free Trade. Actuality of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Closed Commercial State

Trade Protectionism

Trade Protectionism If we had a situation where these [steel workers] were our constituents and someone was breaking in their house and raping and robbing and pillaging them, we would want to send in a policeman to do something. In this instance, they [importers of foreign steel] are just coming in and taking their future, they are taking their jobs, they are taking all of their dreams away. … ...

Modern Commercial Policy: Managed Trade or Retaliation?

In this paper we study worldwide antidumping (AD) case filing patterns in order to determine the extent to which economic versus strategic incentives explain the behavior of countries employing AD actions. We compare four main hypotheses. Two are motivated by the BagwellStaiger (1990) model of special protection and are consistent with the view that AD actions are used to prevent unfair trade: ...

Cost of commercial protectionism in child health research.

As someone with a background in both public health research and homeless services, I was recently approached by a group of voluntary agencies working with homeless families to assist them in conducting a research project to investigate the mental and physical health status of children passing through their services. The personnel involved were alarmed by what they saw as the largely undiagnosed...

The Death of Irish Trade Protectionism: A Political Economy Analysis

The decision to abandon protectionism and move to a more open economy is considered one of the most important developments in modern Irish economic history. Drawing on recent work in the field of international political economy, we propose a new explanation for this important policy change based on interest groups’ demands. More specifically, we argue that Irish agriculture’s needs were highly ...

Is There No Business Like Show Business? Free Trade and Cultural Protectionism