Sign the Petition against Protectionism

Some friends are starting an international campaign to protect and expand free trade and the free movement of people. The Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the International Policy Network, and the Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace, and Prosperity are sponsoring a global Freedom to Trade Petition to be released just before the upcoming G-20 meeting in London. Please sign the petition.

Beacon of Liberty

Everything old is new again. From the essay in question:

The wider context was the challenge to liberalism and the free market posed by
the rise of a generalised state interventionism in the form of planning,
corporatism and socialism. Capitalism seemed on the brink of systemic failure
and for many it was capitalism itself that was to blame. Its decline and its end
appeared inevitable.

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