• VoterFrog
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    1 month ago

    Wikipedia has a whole list of citations on this very sentence lol.

    There is near unanimous consensus among economists that tariffs are self-defeating and have a negative effect on economic growth and economic welfare

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff

    • Ulrich@feddit.org
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      1 month ago

      Oh well, you have a single sentence from a Wikipedia article, I guess I was wrong!

      The citations are all concerning the concept of “free trade” which is an incredibly generic phrase.