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Jan 11, 2019 9 min

S2 Ep2: Why we vote for protectionism

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It blows the minds of economists when voters choose protectionist policies that, they point out, make most of them poorer. Gene Grossman tells Tim Phillips how trade models can explain this, if they incorporate insights from other social sciences.

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