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Import substitution, good or bad?

Import substitution, good or bad?

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Matt Nolan
Aug 08, 2007
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Free exchange and Dani Rodrik have both made intelligent posts on the issue of import substitution. Free exchange sticks to the common line that import substitution is bad, Dani says that there is evidence that it is good.

I know very little about any of this, but I'm going to say something anyway. As far as I can tell, trade policy should work off the i…

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