Protectionism is a dirty word. It suggests an unwillingness to engage in the global economy, which economists believe results in negative consequences for both the domestic and international market ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Global economic growth is facing the risk of inward-looking policies and protectionism which much be avoided, European Economics Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said on Monday ...

The current political environment has every protectionist on the planet crawling out from underneath the rocks where they've been hiding from the free traders these past 40 years. This is not going to ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement of new tariffs on steel and aluminum has lots of people talking about “protectionism,” which is a trade policy where countries “protect” their domestic industries ...

On June 28, Donald Trump delivered a speech of uncharacteristic narrative coherence to an audience in Monessen, Pennsylvania, a small city that used to specialize in steel manufacturing. He attributed ...

It has become commonplace to talk about a rise in protectionism around the world, not least because it is true; protectionism is rising. Anti-dumping tariffs on steel, for example, have been imposed ...

State intervention has made a comeback. States have, in one way or another, always intervened in markets to develop specific industries and push innovation. But there has been a renaissance since the ...

The international economic battle that President Donald J. Trump is waging on China as a well as on the U.S.'s closest allies is a full-fledged example of free trade versus protectionism. Trump argues ...

Reprinted with Permission from The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, by Samuel Gregg, published by Encounter Books. @ 2022 by ...

Deborah Elms, executive director at consultancy Asian Trade Centre, said governments around the world will turn increasingly protectionist in the near term as they try to limit the economic damage ...