{"id":36107,"date":"2018-07-31T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36107"},"modified":"2018-07-11T08:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T12:54:19","slug":"qotd-hostility-to-international-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/07\/31\/qotd-hostility-to-international-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Hostility to international trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Much suspicion of, and hostility to, international trade is akin to atavistic superstitions that raised in some peoples suspicions of, and hostility to, mating with individuals outside of those people\u2019s ethnic or racial or religious groups. \u201cOnly We are worthy of your seed or your womb \u2013 They are not!\u201d \u201cCorruption of the purity of Our race is the inevitable result of your conjugal mixing with Them!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or only slightly differently: protectionism is much like in-breeding. Like in-breeding, protectionism weakens the economy that practices it. Like in-breeding, protectionism causes the group that practices it to become ever-more stupid, uncreative, fragile, and vulnerable \u2013 a population of pathetic misfits destined to be weaker and poorer than are their more-cosmopolitan and open neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Don Boudreaux, <a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.com\/2016\/09\/quotation-of-the-day-1836.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Quotation of the Day\u2026&#8221;, <em>Caf\u00e9 Hayek<\/em><\/a>, 2016-09-14.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much suspicion of, and hostility to, international trade is akin to atavistic superstitions that raised in some peoples suspicions of, and hostility to, mating with individuals outside of those people\u2019s ethnic or racial or religious groups. \u201cOnly We are worthy of your seed or your womb \u2013 They are not!\u201d \u201cCorruption of the purity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[25,41],"tags":[320,355,266],"class_list":["post-36107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-quotations","tag-freetrade","tag-prejudice","tag-protectionism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9on","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36107","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=36107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36108,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36107\/revisions\/36108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}