Much damage can be done in the name of industry assistance by state governments.
Protectionism
The real price of television protectionism
Commercial television broadcasters receive hundreds of millions of dollars of benefits from government each year, and no one’s debating why.
Is the jobs forum a summit in search of a problem?
Employers and unions are unlikely to have much of a dialogue at the jobs forum in a few weeks.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Protectionism’s bad, but what’s the alternative?
Crikey readers have their say.
The return of protectionism: the gang’s all here
Protectionism is alive and well and has strong allies in the public policy arena.
Steel industry nabs $60,000 of taxpayer money per job
Under the cover of the carbon pricing scheme, Labor has reverted to old-fashioned protectionism with massive handouts to the steel industry.
Garnaut’s ‘in for a penny, in for a quid’ approach to reform
Ross Garnaut figures if you’re undertaking a major reform you may as well do as much as possible.
There’ll never be a better time for a carbon price
Saying you support a carbon price but not if it costs any jobs is nonsensical. The point of a carbon price is change.
Count Carl Gustav Wachmeister wants to cut your lunch
Australia faces a growing “food security” problem, we’re told by politicians and industry. Except, we’re not - it’s just old-fashioned protectionism on the march.
How Paul Krugman will bring down the US economy
Economist Paul Krugman reckons the US should impose a 25% surcharge on Chinese goods until the country caves in and floats its currency. It’s a dangerous proposition, warns Jeremy Warner: it would simply ruin both economies.
Winners and losers in the great game of industry assistance
Australia stopped reducing its industry assistance in the 1990s and has been increasing it for years — mainly to big multinationals in small industries with strong unions. And other sectors are paying the price.
Guy Rundle: The utopian borderless free world is fiction
Globalisation has created international economic dependency that erodes state power, writes Guy Rundle.
