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How about naming all the large industrial economies, and then doing a checklist.

The UK. initial protectionist phase.
The US. initial protectionist phase.
Japan, initial protectionist phase.
Germany, initial protectionist phase.

Just keep that list going, and the first large industrial economy that developed in the history of development of large industrial economies without a protectionist phase, that is the answer.


Utsukushikereba sore de ii

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Fri Apr 13th, 2007 at 04:27:42 PM EST
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... big developing economies, and add to the list:
  • China, initial protectionist phase
  • India, initial protectionist phase
  • Brazil, initial protectionist phase

There is a strong tendency to confuse the policy fight that occurs in a successfully industrialising country about the need to phase protectionist policies out, and the question over how essential the protectionist policies were in the first place ...

... especially when the phase out is won by a coalition of those who were always opposed to them and those who argue that their time has passed.


Utsukushikereba sore de ii

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Fri Apr 13th, 2007 at 05:26:05 PM EST
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