Labor 2.0 (initial thoughts)
This is going to be purposefully short. I want a discussion on this more than anything, as my thoughts are still very much forming. Does a revived labor movement require protectionist policies, increasing tariffs,...
Tagged: Protectionism
Down the Rabbit Hole
On the question of organized labor, outsourcing, and immigration Sam M writes: One complication, of course, is policing. Money flows more easily than bodies. So even the strictest programs would likely have more...
Protecting the music industry from those pesky consumers
If you like music, this is really important. The architecture of online music distribution has been amazing for the consumer. With iTunes or Pandora or eMusic, the savvy listener can get just about whatever...
Localism and free trade
Will asks a few good questions about markets and economies of scale, to which Kevin Carson (among others) provides some very good answers from his own unique, mutualist perspective. Will asks, “are localism and...
Threat Level Midnight
Daniel Drezner sounds the alarm over Obama’s dangerous protectionist tendencies.
a question for anti-statists
How can anti-statists reconcile themselves with protectionism? This has become a kind of stumbling block for me. I have slowly become more and more disillusioned with protectionism as policy because it seems that it...
Localism Saved by Globalism, Cont’d
UPDATE, 3/25: In response to some accurate criticism, I have pulled back some of the arguments made in the below post; my revised argument can be found here. The good Mr. Dr. Larison has...
Why Localism Requires Globalism
UPDATE, 3/25: In response to some accurate criticism, I have pulled back some of the arguments made in the below post; my revised argument can be found here. Over the last few weeks, some...
no trees were harmed in the making of this blog
I suppose when it comes to politics I am a bit of a mixed bag. I think ideally moving away from a large federal state, a massive coporate economy and toward a localized, self-determining...
Protectionism and National Security
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives. It is...
Growth and Prosperity
The loss of our self-understanding as parts of a whole meant that individuals who achieved material success were able to consider their achievement as fully their own. By contrast, those who happened to be...
Can The (Economic) Ladder Be Restored?
ED “Why Don’t You Sanction Me?” Kain promised a coming thread on protectionism a couple of days back but so far no (copyright protected) dice. So I thought I would initiate the discussion. I...
