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By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hotwalls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland? …As long as the one country has those advantages, and the other wants [lacks] them, it will always be more advantageous for the latter, rather to buy of the former than to make. |
Adam Smith on growing grapes in Scotland
27 May 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, industrial organisation Tags: Adam Smith, free trade, industry policy, protectionism
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