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Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one.
If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.
We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.
But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.
Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.
Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.
