Tintrlvr
Junior Chimp
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« on: December 22, 2016, 01:28:25 PM » |
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« edited: December 22, 2016, 01:31:03 PM by Tintrlvr »
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These are basically just responses to changes in political discussion rather than actual changes in the beliefs of economists. No economists would have asserted that free trade benefited *everyone*, just that it was a net positive and Pareto optimal. None of the papers you cite suggest otherwise, it just has those economists who are inherently political in their outlook talking about the negative side effects that were always acknowledged but viewed (rightly) as externalities to the greater benefits of free trade and maybe talked about less because the political environment wasn't right for it. Of course, anti-trade political movements will seize on the papers to claim a lack of consensus that is not even asserted by the papers they cite.
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