Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!water!watcgl!jchapman From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Re: Better DEAD than RED Message-ID: <2131@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 13:29:27 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.2131 Posted: Fri Jun 28 13:29:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 01:18:04 EDT References: <893@mnetor.UUCP> <5642@utzoo.UUCP> <896@mnetor.UUCP> <5730@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18 > > ... The type of economy we are talking > > about *requires* constant expansion and *external* markets. Originally > > external may have meant the next village/town however eventually a > > country's economy reached it's limits ... > > If the internal economies of the Western nations have limits, there is > no evidence for them in any major economic indicator. Disregarding > short-term fluctuations and compensating for inflation, the *internal* > trade and commerce of the Western nations is monotonic-increasing even > today, and has been for a number of centuries. Remember, this is not a > zero-sum game we are talking about. > -- > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > Yes but increasing how fast? Would we today (without external trade) be at a level that we were at 200-300 years ago (with external trade). Look at what happens to our economy when for example the US puts a tariff on our lumber or hogs or ore.