If people wanted to institute new trade barriers I'd probably oppose it on the grounds that not only you hurt some people but the likely aggregate loss (from comparative advantage) would prevent you from compensating the losers.
So let's just wrap up my position with this:
Now if I could only get off my lazy ass long enough to read some of those textbooks.... Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
And, yes, there is big money in textbooks, if the author is well known and can, therefore, convince other professors to assign it to students. I'm sure Krugman, Mankiw and Romer have earned plenty on textbooks, alone. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Write it then: I'll complain if I think you missed anything!
Fair enough. Will do. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin