See below! ********************************* Henry George School of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 818 352-4141 ********************************* >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:futurework- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss >Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 12:56 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [Futurework] Eating the planet > >Harry Pollard wrote: >> During the complete free trade period at the end of the 19th century, > >Yeah right, robber-baronism on a global scale is "complete free trade". >Good that you finally admit this.
It's so hard to climb over the obstructions erected by the close reading of propaganda, but I'll try. A country adopts free trade by removing all trade barriers to imports. The Brits at the end of the 19th century levied an excise duty on only two commodities - teas and sugar - neither of which were grown in Britain. Anything else could freely enter. That was free trade. Whether or not there was "robber-baronism" - as you so quaintly put it - is quite beside the point. It had nothing to do with great economic consequences of freeing trade. Do you think you can understand that? >> the profits from trade didn't come back to England. They >> were mostly invested overseas. >> >> Both countries benefited - as they did from the free trade in goods. > >Funny -- you re-define colonialism. I guess you even count the smallpox >blankets as "investments". There is nothing like a smart quip and that was nothing like a smart quip. >Chris > > > >_______________________________________________ >Futurework mailing list >[email protected] >http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
