Indeed, economic thinkers of the World War II era understood that free trade was a growth-enhancing gift for promoting economic individual specialization and cooperation among global producers, and that a lack of unfettered trade in the 1930s arguably gave us the horror that was World War II.

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Free trade is the happy process that allows us to acquire as much as possible for as little as possible, all the while boosting our individual economic specialization.

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