Mary A. Yeager, in The Journal of Economic History (Mar. 1980), Eleutherian Mills

 
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Trade protection is commonly viewed as a crutch that governments occasionally hand to faltering domestic industries. Yeager, a UCLA his- torian, argues that tariffs and import quotas have supported the world's steel industries for so long that protection itself has become a key ingredient in steelmaking...