Protectionist laws keeping food prices high

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: April 23, 2008| Author: Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Copyright information

WASHINGTON -- In the 1830s, Richard Cobden and John Bright started a campaign against the protectionist laws that were keeping food prices high in Britain. After sustaining abuse for many years, they persuaded the government in 1846 to repeal the infamous Corn Laws, a move that helped usher in a long period of prosperity. I have been thinking intensely about these 19th-century heroes lately. The world needs a new Anti-Corn Law League, the movement they founded, if it wants to put a stop to th...

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