> your job as an economist is to study the principles i listed above, and to theorize as to ways to do it more efficiently and successfully than we have been doing it so far. not to come up with a theory as to why fucking over an entire country so some motherfucking jew can get richer than he otherwise would is a good idea.  thats pretty much why i study henry carey and the american school of economics. this school cares about the wealth and power of the nation. and using protectionism or even industrial policy to ensure that. some of them even border onto autarky. > beyond adam smith's wealth of nations, nothing else is of any use to you. ignore it all.  the american school and heterdox economists im talking about responded to the wealth of nations and criticized it. saying it completely ignores the history of how countries actually got rich. and instead promotes wrong and even opportunistic things. after all, the american school of economics viewed the british promotion of free trade as a conspiracy. for what better way to entrap and destroy a nation than by advocating free trade. which allows the very developed british manufacturers to come in and destroy american infant industry. > which is basically the entire purpose of modern economic thought.  there are some good people like ha joon chang and people like him. those guys point to the east asian model and show that protectionist and nationalist economics work.
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