Source: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 33
“Free Trade may be the alpha, but it is not the omega, of Liberal policy.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in Manchester (21 April 1908), quoted in Thomas Jones, Lloyd George (London: Oxford University Press, 1951), p. 35.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Ha-Joon Chang book Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 2, Learning the right lessons from history, p. 61
Context: Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.
Rab Butler (1902–1982) British politician
Speech at the Conservative Party conference of 1954, quoted in Ralph Harris, Politics Without Prejudice. A Political Appreciation of The Rt. Hon. Richard Austen Butler C.H., M.P. (London: Staples Press, 1956), p. 159.
“On Bush "Free Trade" policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.”
Patrick Buchanan (1938) American politician and commentator
2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)
William Pfaff (1928–2015) American journalist
Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 149.
Ha-Joon Chang (1963) Economist
"Kicking Away the Ladder" http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue15/Chang15.htm, post-autistic economics review, issue no. 15, 1 September 2002, article 3
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
The Thirty Years War
“In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.”
Aesop book The Lion and the Mouse
The Lion and the Mouse.
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the National Labour conference at Caxton Hall, London (28 October 1935), quoted in The Times (29 October 1935), p. 9
1930s
Tony Benn (1925–2014) British Labour Party politician
Speech in the House of Commons (7 November 1973) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1973/nov/07/price-and-pay-code <br class="br">1970s
