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Tag Archives: mercantilism
Lessons from the Sublime Porte: How to lose an empire
Current U.S. trade policies were first tried by the Ottoman empire. As I show in this article — first published in the August 2010 issue of the American Conservative – America’s decline is proceeding even faster. Here’s an economic history … Continue reading
Posted in History, Trade
Tagged birdal, economies of scale, foreign debts, mercantilism, ottoman, pat choate, tariffs, trade, value added tax, vat
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Edwin Reischauer: An ambassador who lied TO his country
John Kennedy’s ambassador to Japan is the subject of a new biography. Unfortunately, as I point out in this review (which was first published in the June 2010 issue of the American Conservative), the author’s agenda has little to do with … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, History, Japan
Tagged cartel, detroit, galbraith, harvard, japan, mercantilism, packard, reischauer, renault, wanted: an asian policy
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