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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
5:41 PM EDT
Kelsey Zahourek

Free Trade Petition

Atlas Economic Research Foundation and the International Policy Network have collaborated to put together a petition calling on world leaders to halt the worldwide move towards protectionism and to tear down current barriers to trade.  The intitial unveiling will be April 1 in London to coincide with G20 meetings. 

Here is a brief excerpt:

The specter of protectionism is rising. It is always a dangerous and foolish policy, but it is especially dangerous at a time of economic crisis, when it threatens to damage the world economy. Protectionism’s peculiar premise is that national prosperity is increased when government grants monopoly power to domestic producers. As centuries of economic reasoning, historical experience, and empirical studies have repeatedly shown, that premise is dead wrong. Protectionism creates poverty, not prosperity. Protectionism doesn’t even “protect” domestic jobs or industries; it destroys them, by harming export industries and industries that rely on imports to make their goods. Raising the local prices of steel by “protecting” local steel companies just raises the cost of producing cars and the many other goods made with steel. Protectionism is a fool’s game.

 

Click here to view and sign the petition.

Posted by Kelsey Zahourek on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:41 PM EDT
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