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Protectionism

22 April, 2008 by Amit Varma

This is beautifully crisp:

Producers exist to satisfy consumers; production is the means and consumption is the end.  Protectionism is a policy built on the premise that consumers exist to satisfy producers.

That’s Don Boudreaux in Cafe Hayek, of course.

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