{"id":17137,"date":"2012-09-29T10:29:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T15:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17137"},"modified":"2012-09-29T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T15:29:53","slug":"disabusing-canadians-about-mercantilism-one-tweet-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/29\/disabusing-canadians-about-mercantilism-one-tweet-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabusing Canadians about mercantilism, one tweet at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen F. Gordon is waging a lonely campaign to persuade Canadians that free trade is better than the managed, mercantilist &#8220;free trade&#8221; most of our governments have wanted since the NAFTA negotiations:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not enough people understand the benefits from the unilateral opeining of borders. (1\/2)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/252024799403061249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The benefits we get from foreign investment are not conditional on how the other govt treats foreign investment.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/252024956081283072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The gains from the Nexen takeover have *nothing* to do with how China treats foreign investment.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/252025126034497537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Martin Wolf once called GATT a mutual disarmament treaty for mercantilists. That mindset is still too dominant.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/252025389638111232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Too many people think that Canadian investors are our hostages and that we should demand some form of compensation for releasing them.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/252027200403034112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen F. Gordon is waging a lonely campaign to persuade Canadians that free trade is better than the managed, mercantilist &#8220;free trade&#8221; most of our governments have wanted since the NAFTA negotiations: Not enough people understand the benefits from the unilateral opeining of borders. (1\/2) &mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) September 29, 2012 The benefits we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[316,320,410,310],"class_list":["post-17137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","tag-borders","tag-freetrade","tag-mercantilism","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4sp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17139,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137\/revisions\/17139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}