Introducing: Talking Tariffs Tuesdays
Reading and talking about George's book on tariffs at 5 pm Pacific time on Tuesdays
Henry George wrote a book called Protection or Free Trade to talk about how much he didn’t like tariffs. Imma gonna read a chapter and talk about it every Tuesday.
AT 5 PM PACIFIC TIME.
HERE ON SUBSTACK’S LIVE VIDEO PLATFORM.
If I can figure it out.
If not, there’s always Twitch/YouTube.
I’ll post the VOD somewhere too.
Wikipedia has the following collections of quotes about this work:
In 1997, Spencer MacCallum wrote that Henry George was "undeniably the greatest writer and orator on free trade who ever lived."[6]
In 2009, Tyler Cowen wrote that George's 1886 book Protection or Free Trade "remains perhaps the best-argued tract on free trade to this day."[7]
Jim Powell said that Protection or Free Trade was probably the best book on trade written by anyone in the Americas, comparing it Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.[8]
Milton Friedman said it was the most rhetorically brilliant work ever written on trade.[9] Friedman also paraphrased one of George's arguments in favor of free trade: "It’s a very interesting thing that in times of war, we blockade our enemies in order to prevent them from getting goods from us. In time of peace we do to ourselves by tariffs what we do to our enemy in time of war.”[10]
Oswald Garrison Villard said, "Few men made more stirring and valuable contributions to the economic life of modern America than did Henry George,"[11] and that what George had "written about protection and free trade is as fresh and as valuable today as it was at the hour in which it was penned."[12]
JOIN ME. Here on Substack live or whatever. I’ll figure out a way to post the VOD on YouTube though.
Yours truly,
Max