[ExI] Strong libertarianism, societal good, & suffering (was: Cephalization, proles)

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Damien Sullivan
<phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
> Oh, and those jobs developed under the protection of tariffs, a pattern
> which has been repeated again and again in the 20th century.  External
> free trade doesn't seem good for diverse development.

### Damien, maybe you won't believe me but the general beneficence of
international trade (and the disutility of trade barriers including
tariffs) is one of the best established conclusions of the last 200
years of economic theory. Not even Keynesians and Marxist economists
will defend tariffs (and still be able to publish anywhere
mainstream).

Rafal