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From: richard@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,sci.electronics,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Protectionism
Message-ID: <328@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Apr 88 12:26:49 GMT
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In article <1519@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>Most economists today agree that one of the major causes of the Great
>Depression in the 30's was when Congress passed major protectionist
>legislation. Remember history when you propose new protectionist policies.

Nonsense.  Some right-wing economists hold this opinion.  Not "most
economists agree...".

Now can we get this out of comp.arch?  I'd redirect followups to a
suitable group if we received one here, but we don't, so you'd better
edit it yourselves.

-- Richard
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