these new liberals, these libertarians, these free market economists,

can never point to a single example in world history

of any state entering high-income status

through their political program, including, by the way, all of the

advanced wealthy rich Western states, which obviously they benefited from

imperialism, slavery, genocide, ethnic cleansing of indigenous people stealing their land.

But even aside from that, the US was the most protectionist economy on earth until World War II,

and the British economy was the most protectionist until famously

the mid-19th century when they famously got rid of the corn laws, which was a way of maintaining

steady price for grains.

And this was shown famously by the South Korean Development Economist Ha Jun Chang, who is not like a Marxist

Leninist.

He's a development economist, and he has shown, through his famous book,

kicking away the latter, that every single successful wealthy economy developed through

massive state intervention in the economy,

industrial policy, high tariffs, protectionism,

not through free trade.

It's only after they develop,

then they start reaching free trade

because famously, as we've known since the 19th century

with famous economists like Friedrich list he famously pointed out that it's only

when the British Empire attained its technological and economic dominance,

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