The return of economic nationalism

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Author(s) The Economist editorial board
Source The Economist
Date February 5, 2009
URL http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=13061443
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Quotes-start.png "True, everybody sensible scoffs at Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley, the lawmakers who in 1930 exacerbated the Depression by raising American tariffs. But reasonable people opposed them at the time, and failed to stop them: 1,028 economists petitioned against their bill." Quotes-end.png


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