Free Trade is not a political policy. It is natural for
humans to exchange.
True but that is a very simple thing.
What do you think about capital or speculation?
Protection is a policy that tries to prevent this
natural cooperation from happening.
No, protection is just one of the strategies of
trade. It is, like all conflict, a contraction meant
to hold back nature until a more opportune time to negotiate takes
place. It is no more unnatural than sticks piling up in a
stream. In fact if you chart the flow of trade I suspect that you
will find the same wave patterns as in other liquids with the corresponding
contraction and resolution that we find in dissonance and consonance in
music.
How simple this all is. Why make it
complicated? Perhaps because that's the way the Neo-Classicals make a living.
What this means is that I am not convinced that you know of
what you speak. It is one thing to declare a lack of complexity
which would imply that you are competant at what you speak, it is another to
actually prove it in practical action. Could you share your
experience in the private world with some of these
principles? What are your successes and
failures? Also you could be a lot clearer on your
definitions of such things as the kind of market you consider
"free." It all seems like an exercise in "one up manship"
rather than a pursuit of values.
Cheers,
Ray
