{"id":2453,"date":"2016-04-12T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2016-04-13T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T21:47:48","slug":"free-trade-or-protectionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2016\/04\/12\/free-trade-or-protectionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Trade or Protectionism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen goods are not allowed to cross borders, soldiers will.\u201d \u2014Frederic Bastiat<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s safe to say that the majority of economists agree in favor of free trade and against protectionism. Many argue against political candidates that threaten to end trade agreements, and employ tariffs on Mexico and China.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s also important to be aware of some of the problems with free trade:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first problem with free trade is that people use GDP as a conventional argument.<\/li>\n<li>Or when economic value is taken away, or created without a price tag. Free trade can dissolve industries with hidden values.<\/li>\n<li>People assume that trade is sustainable, and short-term binges can lower long-term living standard.<\/li>\n<li>People assume that free trade doesn\u2019t create income inequality.<\/li>\n<li>Assuming in comparative advantage can lead internationally mobile factors of production to migrate to another country, which isn\u2019t always best for the country from which they came.<\/li>\n<li>Theory guarantees gains from trade- but these gains can stimulate productivity abroad and make our rivals stronger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although there are problems with it, global free trade will likely prevail over protectionist policies.The question isn\u2019t competition is better for the economy, but at what cost is this coming? Is it acceptable to allow a business or country that cannot compete against a foreign competitor in an industry to have to stop being business of providing those products?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen goods are not allowed to cross borders, soldiers will.\u201d \u2014Frederic Bastiat It\u2019s safe to say that the majority of economists agree in favor of free trade and against protectionism. Many argue against political candidates that threaten to end trade agreements, and employ tariffs on Mexico and China. But it\u2019s also important to be aware of some of the problems with free trade: The first problem with free trade is that people use GDP as a conventional argument. Or when economic value is taken away, or created without a price tag. Free trade can dissolve industries with hidden values. People <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2016\/04\/12\/free-trade-or-protectionism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Free Trade or Protectionism?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[455,457,456],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-free-trade","tag-protectionism","tag-world-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}