Environmentalism’s Sword: Protectionism

Josiah Neeley Economists are famous for disagreeing among themselves. Yet on the subject of free trade, economic opinion speaks almost with one voice. In a recent survey, 87.5 percent of PhD members of the American Economic Association agreed that “the U.S. should eliminate remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade.” As Paul Krugman (not exactly [...]

Source: http://www.masterresource.org/2012/08/environmentalism-sword-protectionism/