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To: craig crawford who wrote (26559)	6/3/2002 7:38:44 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 59480

it is commonly accepted that the free trade era in britain began with the repeal of the corn laws in 1846. And Great Britian had an enormous amount of economic growth in the period after 1846. There was a great expantion of trade and industrial devlopment. one of the reasons the germans attacked was because they thought they could use their subs to interrupt food shipments and starve england into submission. if england had not abandoned growing its own food and had been more self-sufficient the germans probably would not have attacked. Free trade didn't lead to imperial over stretch, to the extent that the empire was motivated by trade concerns it was motivated by mercantilism not free trade. England didn't abandon growing food but it did let free market forces funnel investment in to industry which it had more of a comparative advantage then it did in agriculture. The sellers of the food became buyers of British industrial goods. The wealth and industrial production created by this trade gave England the ability to have a powerful military. If the corn laws had continued until the 20th century England would have had more and more difficulty feeding its growing population and it would not have had as much money or as developed of industrial base. Germany might not have had to rely on submarines trying to interrupt food shipments, it might have simply been able to defeat the British navy and land an army on British shores. no major push toward world government? do you live in a cave? Yes no major push at least not in the US. After WWII the Cold War started in earnest there was a lot more of a push for world government from people in the US then there is now. that's what you free traders don't seem to grasp. so-called free-trade is not free. there will never be free trade as you would like it, just as there will never be peace. marxism sounds just dandy on paper, but look at the results of its implementation, not the intentions. look at the results of so-called "free trade" This has nothing to do with marxism, in fact the freer trade is the less marxist the economy is. BTW marxism doesn't "sound just dandy on paper". The way free trade has been implemented is as I have said less then ideal, but it is freer trade and it is better then protectionism. The net effect to this point has been enormously positive. Tim