Trade barriers were not explicitly discussed, actually, as I thought I noted.
While I am mostly in favor of free trade, I don't find the doctrinaire libertarian position on it particularly helpful, because it comes from an assumption of the active desirability of the absence of governance in all human affairs that I find unsupportable, a "just say no to the rule of law!" approach to government that I find no more likeable when it is promoted by people who just want to be left alone than when it is promoted by people who want to sign me into a freely entered contract of lifetime indentured servitude.
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Date: 2003-08-14 03:05 am (UTC)While I am mostly in favor of free trade, I don't find the doctrinaire libertarian position on it particularly helpful, because it comes from an assumption of the active desirability of the absence of governance in all human affairs that I find unsupportable, a "just say no to the rule of law!" approach to government that I find no more likeable when it is promoted by people who just want to be left alone than when it is promoted by people who want to sign me into a freely entered contract of lifetime indentured servitude.