Ian Fletcher on Free Trade Again

Some additional videos of Ian Fletcher, the author of Free Trade Doesn’t Work: What Should Replace It and Why (2nd edn.; 2011), criticising free trade:





An important point in the video above at the end is that today various forms of East Asian state capitalism (although they are by no means free from problems, e.g., the current property bubble and banking problems in China) are still killing the Western neoliberal version of capitalism. We in the West need a defensive state capitalism, with (at the very least) protectionism and an industrial policy.



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