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- From: hh15@ellis.uchicago.edu (he huang)
- Subject: Re: Trade War?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.082104.24909@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 08:21:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.183042.23658@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:
- :
- :suspect that if he were alive today, he'd argue something like this:
- :there's nothing wrong with such trade, but having an the economy of a
- :given political (and by your own claim, *cultural*) entity dependent
- :on exporting things to other such entities that it does not control or
- :even necessarily share much with is a mistake. If we can't build
- :stable, healthy economies within the confines of a national boundary(*),
- :what makes us think we can do it within the confines of the entire
- :planet ?
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- How about this: Talking about each individual's life.
- There's nothing wrong with having to buy houses not made by oneself,
- food not grown by oneself, clothes not sewed by oneself, and so on,
- but have the necessities of one's life dependent on selling things and
- buying things to other such individuals that s/he does not control or
- even necessarily share much with is a mistake. If one can't build
- stable, healthy autarkic lifestyle all by himself, ......
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- :
- :-- paul
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- Harry
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