From destructive to creative trade through economic democracy
Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms
ISBN: 978-0-85724-453-6, eISBN: 978-0-85724-454-3
Publication date: 25 November 2010
Abstract
During the great depression of the 1930s, facing drastic unemployment and declining incomes, many of the European countries affected engaged in protecting their national markets through import protection. This beggar-thy-neighbor policy gave the economists’ profession an impetus to show what was happening and to conclude that restriction of free trade – the beggar-thy-neighbor policy based on repetitive retaliation – is detrimental to the economy, and thence the conclusion and recommendation of free trade.
Citation
Vanek, J. (2010), "From destructive to creative trade through economic democracy", Eriksson, T. (Ed.) Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms (Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 247-253. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0885-3339(2010)0000011014
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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