priming the world pump

[Bruce McFarling <brmcf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Still chuckling.  Your 19th century would include, when last I checked,
1800-1899.  If continental Europe went protectionist in the late 1870's
and stayed protectionist through the mid 1940's, and the U.S. gets
progressively less protectionist pretty much through the century.

	Ok, Thornton, you win.  The 19th Century, with the exception of
the period before 1875 and domestic economic policy, were by no means lazy
fair.  Only in the role of the government in the economy and, for
international trade, that pre-1875 era could we say that lazy
fair had a shot.  Oh, yeah, except Africa and Latin America and much of
Asia.  Boy did they enjoy their period of lazy fair, especially for the
places where it culminated in actual colonization by European powers.

	See, I didn't get this by reading revisionist, pre-revisionist,
or post-revisionist histories of Protectionism.  I got it from reading
history, especially the history of Latin America, Africa, and Europe.  So
that's how you beat me, you got the big picture from your Protectionist
booksheld, while I got the restricted view from reading general history.
BTW, have you read _A Century of Debt Crisis in Latin America_ yet?  And
thanks, 6, 7 and 8 (versions 2) have been finished.  But 9's gonna be a
killer. (on me, not on the profession at large ;)

Virtually,

Bruce McFarling, Knoxville
brmcf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx