Oh, do you want protectionism? No, I don't. I just don't want to give my country away to China.
(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.
Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.
It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.
If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.
I'm not talking about autarky. I'm not crazy. We need an intelligent protectionism.
We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.
Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.
We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade.
The analysis in the era of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher was that government was interfering with the efficiency of the economy through protectionism, government subsidies, and government ownership. Once the government "got out of the way," private markets would allocate resources efficiently and generate robust growth. Development would simply come.
A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right - which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man. . . . The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries.
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
