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Farmers, producers and businesses who benefit from these protectionistic measures love the idea of African debt relief, because it does not address on of the root causes of structural problems on the continent.
Economic Growth Gauntlet, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And I think that pretty much all economistic arguments in favor of copyright restrictions follow the same sort of bogus protectionistic logic that is followed by these economistic arguments for patent monopolies.
Libertarians for Protectionism, Appendix B: contrarium sequitur edition 2009
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The problem is that they attempt to support intellectual enclosure on explicitly protectionistic grounds: they begin from the premise that there is some level of innovation or artistic production which, somehow or another, they presume to know perfectly well to be the right amount.
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The problem is that they attempt to support intellectual enclosure on explicitly protectionistic grounds: they begin from the premise that there is some level of innovation or artistic production which, somehow or another, they presume to know perfectly well to be the right amount.
Libertarians for Protectionism, Appendix B: contrarium sequitur edition 2009
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These men are outwardly motivated by concern and protectionistic/paternalistic feelings.
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It discovered its own agenda, which was still largely protectionistic, but came to see that the liberals actually had very little power in the media.
Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981
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Why, I can't figure out, since Apple is every bit as protectionistic as Microsoft, otherwise they won't make everything of their's proprietary.
unknown title bhankiii 2009
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As you know, this market, mostly called Eurobond market -- although it is by no means a European capital market -- has not developed out of an integration and harmonization of national capital markets but rather the reverse: it has come into appearance as an imaginative counter-move of free investment bankers from both sides of the Atlantic against the regrettable protectionistic sheltering of national capital markets almost everywhere, be it for balance of payments or other reasons.
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"South Africa talks of a level playing field when theirs is actually unlevel ... and the country's protectionistic attitude towards its own market place is grossly unfair.
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