Source: Interviewed on Sunday Politics London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPJW7s_B91o#t=8m (21 February 2016)
“Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat.”
Writing in the Chartist newspaper (1847), in Marx Engels Collected Works Vol 6, pg 290.
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“Trade is simply too important for economic development to be left to free trade economists.”
Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 3, More trade, fewer ideologies, p. 83
Context: The importance of international trade for economic development cannot be overemphasized. But free trade is not the best path to economic development. Trade helps economic development only when the country employs a mixture of protection and open trade, constantly adjusting it according to its changing needs and capabilities. Trade is simply too important for economic development to be left to free trade economists.
Speech in Halifax (26 September 1988), quoted in Enoch Powell on 1992 (Anaya, 1989), p. 33
1980s
Source: The Production of Security (1849), p. 22
BBC Today programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-40667879/eu-trade-deal-easiest-in-human-history (20 July 2017)
2017
2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)
POLLAK: Free Trade and the Conservative Intellectuals http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/21/free-trade-conservative-intellectuals/ (February 21, 2017)
2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)