Skeptoid #970: Economic Nationalism: Bounty or Bust?

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Brian Dunning

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Economic nationalism, while attractive to many populists, is not the path to economic success some believe it to be.

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0:00.0	Economic nationalism has a policy of erecting barriers to foreign markets and focusing on building
0:09.4	domestic production. Some believe this to be a way to strengthen your own economy and workforce,
0:15.7	yet economists almost universally point to the many nations who have tried this nearly always with disastrous results.
0:23.6	Today we're going to find out if economic nationalism leads to bounty or to bust.
0:29.6	We're going to do that right now on Skeptoid.
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